It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize. – Theodore Roosevelt
There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 % Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else. – Theodore Roosevelt
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor. – Theodore Roosevelt
It is better to be faithful than famous. – Theodore Roosevelt
I dont pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being. – Theodore Roosevelt
When you play, play hard when you work, dont play at all. – Theodore Roosevelt
Believe you can and youre halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt
If there is not the war, you dont get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you dont get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. – Theodore Roosevelt
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, youve got to start young. – Theodore Roosevelt
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. – Theodore Roosevelt
I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man. – Theodore Roosevelt
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. – Theodore Roosevelt
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife. – Theodore Roosevelt
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. – Theodore Roosevelt
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. – Theodore Roosevelt
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. – Theodore Roosevelt
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. – Theodore Roosevelt
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. – Theodore Roosevelt
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. – Theodore Roosevelt
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace. – Theodore Roosevelt