“All for each, and each for all, is a good motto, but only on condition that each works with might and main to so maintain himself
as not to be a burden to others.”

– An Autobiography, 1913

“We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are
merely the occasions and not the causes of disaster.”

– Chicago, Illinois, April 10, 1899

“Self-governing free men must have the power to accept necessary compromises, to make necessary concessions, each sacrificing somewhat of prejudice, even of principle, and every group
must show the necessary subordination of its particular
interest of the community as a whole.”

– Oliver Cromwell, 1900

“We know that there are in life injustices which we are powerless
to remedy. But we also know that there is much injustice
which can be remedied.”

– The Outlook, March 27, 1909

“I have a strong feeling that it is a President’s duty to get on with Congress if he possibly can, and that it is a reflection upon
him if he and Congress come to a complete break.”

– Letter to Theodore Roosevelt Jr., January 31, 1909

“If we fail, the cause of free self-government throughout
the world will rock to its foundations.”

– Inaugural address, March 4, 1905

“The only true conservative is the man who resolutely sets
his face toward the future.”

– Letter to Colonel Thomas Doherty
read March 2, 1912 at a rally at Tremont
Temple in Boston, Massachusetts

“Three-o’clock-in-the-morning courage is the most desirable kind.”

– An Autobiography, 1913

“The man who makes a promise which he does not intend to keep, and does not try to keep, should rightly be adjudged to have forfeited in some degree what should be every man’s most
precious possession – his honor.”

– San Francisco, California, May 14, 1903

“It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a
better man than the moderate.”

– Published in the “Churchman,” March 17, 1900

“Let Teddy Win.”

– Spoken by the spirit of Theodore Roosevelt,
in honor of The Washington Nationals
clinching the National League East

“If as a nation we are split into warring camps, if we teach our citizens not to look upon one another as brothers but as enemies divided
by the hatred of creed for creed … surely we shall fail and
our great democratic experiment on this continent
will go down in crushing overthrow.”

– New York, New York, October 12, 1915