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 best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to read more

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take read more

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.