“Fellow-feeling, sympathy in the broadest sense, is the most important factor in producing a healthy political and social life.”

In Century,
January 1900

“It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought.”

Atlantic Monthly
August 1894

“Our relations with the other powers of the world are important; but still more important are our relations among ourselves.”

Inaugural Address
March 4, 1905

“The poorest of all emotions for any American citizen to feel is the emotion of hatred toward his fellows.”

Speech in Oyster Bay, NY
July 4, 1906

“Service is the true test by which a man’s worth should be judged.”

Outlook,
March 20, 1909

“Indignation is useless if it exhausts itself in words instead of taking shape in deeds.”

Letter to Samuel T. Dutton
November 24, 1915

“Public welfare depends upon general public prosperity, and the reformer whose reforms interfere with the general prosperity will accomplish little.”

The Outlook,
November 18, 1914

“My fellow-citizens, no people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours.”

Second Inaugural Address,
March 4, 1905

“I thoroughly believe that success – the real success – does not depend upon the position you hold, but upon how you carry yourself in that position.”

University of Cambridge, England,
May 26, 1910

“The only practical politics is honest politics.”

At Trinity Methodist Church, Newburgh, NY,
February 28, 1900

“The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.”

Speech in Denver, CO,
August 19, 1910