Theodore Roosevelt

The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the
well-being of society, but only if they know when read more

The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the
well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking
the muck.
- Theodore Roosevelt,

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be read more

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university read more

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.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth read more

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.