We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.
Theodore RooseveltI hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair share of business prosperity. But it either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anybody can get any benefit from it.
Theodore RooseveltI wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
Theodore RooseveltI think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
Theodore RooseveltThe president is that invisible force that makes a school of fish suddenly change direction, so that everyone 'ohhs' and 'ahhs' at the glimmering mass and only later wonders what makes them move in that way. I read somewhere-_Harper's_, I'm fairly certain-that the fish are only avoiding pockets of extra cold water.
Theodore Roosevelt