“No public servant who is worth his salt should hesitate to stand by his conscience.”

Speech in New York City
October 20, 1911

“Good legislation does not secure good government, which can come only through a good administration.”

Speech in New York
May 25, 1900

“An honest, courageous, and far-sighted politician is a good thing in any country.”

Speech in Cairo, Egypt
March 28, 1910

“A strong and wise people will study its own failures no less than its triumphs, for there is wisdom to be learned from the study of both.”

Sixth Annual Message
December 3, 1906

“We must act with Justice and broad generosity and charity toward one another and toward all men if we are to make this Republic what it must and shall be made.”

Speech in New York City
February 12, 1913

“Besides each one of us working individually, all of us have got to work together. We cannot possibly do our best work as a nation unless all of us know how to act in combination as well as how to act each individually for himself.”

Speech in Minneapolis, MN
September 2, 1901

“The fundamental rule in our national life — the rule which underlies all others — is that, on the whole, and in the long run, we shall go up or down together.”

First Annual Message
December 3, 1901

“There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously, neither hiding from ourselves the gravity of the problems before us nor fearing to approach these problems with the unbending, unflinching purpose to solve them aright.”

Inaugural Address
March 4, 1905

“The health and vitality of our people are at least as well worth conserving as their forests, waters, lands, and minerals, and in this great work the national government must bear a most important part.”

Speech in Osawatomie, Kansas
August 31, 1910

“We welcome leadership, but we wish our leaders to understand that they derive their strength from us.”

The Outlook,
July 9, 1910

“It is not what we have that will make us a great nation. It is the way in which we use it.”

Speech in the Dakota Territory
July 4, 1886

“A great free people owes it to itself and to all mankind not to sink into helplessness before the powers of evil.”

Fourth Annual Message to Congress,
December 6, 1904