Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement. – Theodore Roosevelt
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws. – 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
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. – Theodore Roosevelt
Its funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. Theyre usually quite nice comparisons I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate. – Sloane Crosley