No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
Theodore RooseveltBehind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Theodore RooseveltIn speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
Theodore RooseveltI would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.
Theodore Roosevelt