In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. – Theodore Roosevelt
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort. – Theodore Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln – the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War – was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men. – Theodore Roosevelt
The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead. – Theodore Roosevelt