Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

• Believe you can and you're halfway there.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Independent, Community

• Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Envy, Hatred

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Political, Wealth, Attractive

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.130, Taylor Trade Publications

• No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Roots, Wealth, Force

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.110, Courier Corporation

• Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American. All privileges based on wealth, and all enmity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American-both of them equally so. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, America, Safety

• The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Special, Peculiar

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.69, Cornell University Press

• Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from the oppression of wage workers to unfair methods of crushing out competition.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Crush, Men, Evil

• Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Ignored, Wealth, Welfare

• No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Progressive Taxation, Dollars

  Theodore Roosevelt (2014). “Selected Speeches and Writings of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.117, Vintage

• The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of the public by the proper government authorities will not succeed, in my judgment, in checking the progress of the movement. But if they did succeed they would find that they had sown the wind and would surely reap the whirlwind, for they would ultimately provoke the violent excesses which accompany a reform coming by convulsion instead of by steady and natural growth.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Business, Men, Wind

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

• All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, America, Privilege

  Theodore Roosevelt, Eugene Thwing (1919). “Newer Roosevelt messages: speeches, letters and magazine articles dealing with the war, before and after, and other vital topics”

• I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  People, Understanding, Wealth

  Theodore Roosevelt (1952). “Letters of Theodore Roosevelt: The big stick, 1905-1909”

• Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Ocean, Gun, Two

• We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Lines, Wealth, Draws

  Theodore Roosevelt (1908). “The Roosevelt Policy: Speeches, Letters and State Papers, Relating to Corporate Wealth and Closely Allied Topics, of Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States”

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