I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTI have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTIn any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThe conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThe lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTNo man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThe best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTStart where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTWe must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThe government is us; we are the government, you and I.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThe unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTA great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTKeep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTI put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTIf you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTEvery reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThere are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT