The quotations of

Theodore Roosevelt

26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909

1858–1919

75 quotes, most often on America, Politics and Success. Part of the U.S. Presidents collection.

Only those who are fit to live do not fear to die. And none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same great adventure.
The Great Adventure (vol. 19 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed.), chapter 1, opening sentences, p. 243 (1926). Douglas MacArthur, speech, July 14, 1935, at the annual reunion of veterans of the Rainbow (42d) Infantry Division, World War
- Life & Death
Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.
- America
- Experience
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.
- Age
We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.
Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913), Appendix A
- Business
It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence.
“How Not To Better Social Conditions” in Review of Reviews (January 1897), p. 39
- Money
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!
- Virtue
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
The Strenuous Life (1899)
- Success
The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
An Autobiography (1913)
- Fear
War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.
- Good & Evil
In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
- America
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
“Platform Insincerity” in The Outlook, Vol. 101, No. 13 (27 July 1912), p. 660
- Politics
Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.
Our country offers the most wonderful example of democratic government on a giant scale that the world has ever seen; and the peoples of the world are watching to see whether we succeed or fail.
- America
It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.
- America

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