Pray not for lighter burdens but for stronger backs.
A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
I can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice Roosevelt. (His 19-year-old daughter.) I cannot possibly do both.
When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all.
I feel like a Bull Moose.
Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
The government is us we are the government, you and I.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
As regards the extraordinary prizes, the element of luck is the determining factor.
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gra...
It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.