Theodore Roosevelt — "I do not want to be a professional politician."
I do not want to be a professional politician.
Get This Quote & Author's Image Illustrated On:
Click any product to generate a realistic preview. Up to 3 at a time.
* Initial load can take up to 90 seconds — revising the preview in another color is nearly instant.
Kitchen
Apparel
Other
More from Theodore Roosevelt
"I have a perfect horror of the man who is always saying, 'I wish I had done so and so.'"
"The Negro is not yet capable of self-government."
"I have always been a strong advocate of the policy of 'a fair field and no favor.'"
"I have always been a man of action, and I have always been a man who has tried to do things."
"Unless we are willing to fight for our ideals, we shall lose them."
About Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
26th US President (1901-1909), Progressive trust-buster, conservation pioneer, and the youngest person to assume the presidency (after McKinley's assassination). Closely associated with William Howard Taft (his hand-picked successor and later 1912 election rival) and Gifford Pinchot (his Forest Service chief and conservation co-architect). For an intellectual contrast, see J.P. Morgan, financier and architect of Northern Securities (1837-1913) — TR's 1902 antitrust suit against Morgan's Northern Securities railroad combination was the founding act of progressive antitrust enforcement. Their famous 1902 White House meeting — where Morgan reportedly said 'send your man to my man' and TR refused — is the canonical moment of presidential authority asserting over private financial power.