Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Quotations

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

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did.

If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more.

I feel as fit as a bull moose.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."

The White House is a bully pulpit.

Boxing, jiu-jitsu, scaling the Matterhorn... I did cardio before cardio was cool.

Want More Advice Like This?

Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against the liberty of conscience, which is one of the foundations of American life.

No President has ever enjoyed himself as much as I?

Perhaps the most incapable Executive that ever filled the presidential chair...it would be difficult to imagine a man less fit to guide the state with honor and safety through the stormy times that marked the opening of the present century.

Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.