Theodore Roosevelt

Malefactors of great wealth.

Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly;  who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

No man is above the law and no man below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal.

The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare.

I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character.

Hyphenated Americans. -Metropolitan Magazine