If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTIf you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTTo educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTWomen should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTIf given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThe things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
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 ROOSEVELTGreat thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThe government is us; we are the government, you and I.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTWhen you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTI 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.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTI have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTEvery reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThis country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTA man’s usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTAll the resources we need are in the mind.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTNo man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT