“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

“We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man.”

Speech at New York State Fair,
September 7, 1903

“There is no meaner moral attitude than that of a timid and selfish neutrality between right and wrong.”

Metropolitan
August, 1915

“I do not intend to offend the prejudices of anyone else, but neither do I intend to allow their prejudices to make me false to my principles.”

Letter,
November 8, 1901

“The United States of America has not the option as to whether it will or will not play a great part in the world. It must play a great part.”

The Outlook,
April 1, 1911