Theodore Roosevelt

“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”

“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.”

“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.”

“If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.”

“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”

“No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.”

“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”

“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 gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”

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

“The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.”

“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”

“Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.”

“Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.”

“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”

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

“The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.”