Roosevelt
Quotes

A mere life of ease is nothing in the end a very satisfactory life, and, above all, it is a life which ultimately unfits those who follow it for serious work in the world....
- Theodore Roosevelt

All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

America is not to be made a polyglot boarding house for money hunters of twenty different nationalities who have changed their former country for this country only as farmyard beasts change one feeding-trough for another.
- Theodore Roosevelt

As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory...In this war, we know, books are weapons.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

But our debt is yet greater to the men whose highest type is to be found in a statesman like Lincoln, a soldier like Grant. They showed by their lives that they recognized the law of work, the law of strife; they toiled to win a competence for themselves and those dependent upon them; but they recognized that there were yet other and even loftier duties-duties to the nation and duties to the race.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage is the strength to face pain, act under pressure, and maintain one's values in the face of opposition.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Dwell on things that are interesting.
- Eleanor Roosevelt