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We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.

We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.

Theodore Roosevelt
Adversity, Choices, Rust
Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Theodore Roosevelt's Words of Wit and Wisdom”, p.42, Chartwell

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Theodore Roosevelt
Reading, Better Life

I believe that there should be a very much heavier progressive tax on very large incomes, a tax which should increase in a very marked fashion for the gigantic incomes.

Theodore Roosevelt
Fashion, Believe, Income

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Theodore Roosevelt
Inspirational, Change, Positive
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years.

Theodore Roosevelt
Wise, Mother, Children
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.125, Cornell University Press

When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all.

Theodore Roosevelt
Impossible, Failing
Theodore Roosevelt (2009). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.146, Courier Corporation

Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

Theodore Roosevelt
Men, Littles, Never Trust
Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “The New Nationalism”, Best Books on

There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.

Theodore Roosevelt
Design, Painting, Modern

In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wild life, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Animal, Reality
THEODORE ROOSEVELT (2015). “The Deer Family”, p.81, Loose Cannon

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

Theodore Roosevelt
Business, Squares, People
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.59, Cornell University Press

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work must no longer be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits.

Theodore Roosevelt
Happiness, Lying, Mad
George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.236, e-artnow sro

The worst thing I can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt
Action, Worst, Can Do

We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity.

Theodore Roosevelt
Honesty, Truth, Men
Theodore Roosevelt (1901). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”

We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism.

Theodore Roosevelt
Believe, Fighting, Optimism
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.58, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid.

Theodore Roosevelt
Peace, Thinking, Justice
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.95, Cornell University Press

Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind

Theodore Roosevelt
Eugenics, Ebola, Degenerates

If there is any one duty which more than another we owe it to our children and our children's children to perform at once, it is to save the forests of this country, for they constitute the first and most important element in the conservation of the natural resources of this country.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Children, Tree
Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Presidential addresses and state papers”

There is nothing more distressing ... than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. Such laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes not merely the vacant mind, but the heart in which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition.

Theodore Roosevelt
Laughter, Heart, Men
The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter when the rocking chair in front of the fire simply demands an accompanying book.

Theodore Roosevelt
Book, Autumn, Winter

The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Theodore Roosevelt
Leadership, Boss, Outstanding Leaders
Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

The worst of all fears is the fear of living

Theodore Roosevelt
Fear, President, Worst
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.119, Cornell University Press

I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in . . . a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, . . . increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.

Theodore Roosevelt
Believe, Progressive Taxation, Political
Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge (2017). “The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.3154, Madison & Adams Press

At the risk of repetition let me say again that my plea is not for immunity to, but for the most unsparing exposure of, the politician who betrays his trust, of the big business man who makes or spends his fortune in illegitimate or corrupt ways. There should be a resolute effort to hunt every such man out of the position he has disgraced. Expose the crime, and hunt down the criminal; but remember that even in the case of crime, if it is attacked in sensational, lurid, and untruthful fashion, the attack may do more damage to the public mind than the crime itself.

Theodore Roosevelt
Fashion, Business, Men
The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

Theodore Roosevelt
Work, Play Hard, Advice
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.73, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us... It is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it, that counts.

Theodore Roosevelt
Dark, House, Devil
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.173, Cornell University Press