Theodore Roosevelt

The average man, if he is a man, wants to do his duty.

The credit for the work done in the world belongs to the doer, not to the critic.

The greatest good for the greatest number.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.

The only way to get a good law is to get a good man to enforce it.

We must remember that the conservation of natural resources, though the gravest problem of today, is yet but part of another and greater problem to which this Nation is not yet awake, but to which it must awake in the future, if it is to achieve its destiny; and that is the problem of the conservation of human life.

I have always been fond of the West, and I have always been fond of the men who have made the West.

The true greatness of a nation is not to be found in its material prosperity, but in the character of its people.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.

I am a part of everything that I have met.

The things that are most worthwhile in life are those that are hardest to get.

The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.

We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is not a matter of size, but of spirit.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

The true object of government is the welfare of the people.