Theodore Roosevelt Quotes About Wealth
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The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare.
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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.
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All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.
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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.
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Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.
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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
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We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.
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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.
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Believe you can and you're halfway there.
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I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth.
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Theodore Roosevelt
- Born: October 27, 1858
- Died: January 6, 1919
- Occupation: 26th U.S. President
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