Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose a single child to ill-health, under-education, abuse, addiction, jail, or gun violence. America's highest goal should be for every child to grow up to be a successful young adult -- healthy, educated, free, secure, and a good citizen.

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

I've always been concerned with what happens to children in our society when there's nobody left to take care of them.

What its children become, that will the community become.

We cannot have profits at the expense of our children.

For too long, Ireland has neglected its children.

Hillary Clinton worked with Marian Wright Edelman in Children's Defense Fund. That's all you need to do know.

Taking a toddler to school is one of the most satisfying moments in my many years in public life. There is no better joy than laying the foundations of a strong future for these little children.... Friends, let us all become partners in this quest for ensuring education for all!

Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor.

Nothing is more important to our shared future than the well-being of children. For children are at our core - not only as vulnerable beings in need of love and care but as a moral touchstone amidst the complexity and contentiousness of modern life.

Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.

The social rights of children must be recognized so that a world suited to their needs may be constructed for them. The greatest crime that society commits is that of wasting the money which it should use for children on things that will destroy them and society itself as well.

There's no such thing as other people's children.

The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.

Nothing is more important in our national life than the welfare of our children.

I have always admired organizations that help children grow and learn, and organizations that protect and shelter children when no one else does. And I wanted to draw attention to these organizations and recognize the contributions they were making to the country and to our children in particular.

Everyone keeps talking about fixing and returning America - making America great. But yet, nobody ever seems to focus on the fact that you're not going to make any country great if you don't address its children.

It makes sense for societies to make education compulsory for children. Children are vulnerable. They can't make decisions. But the decisions can't all be left in the hands of the parents. They can be irresponsible too.

I do not support child abuse. It's a disgusting crime of which I am a victim.

The cause of making the world a better place for children unites us all - today HIV/AIDS is the biggest threat to this one universal objective. UNICEF needs us all to help them change the world for children

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

It should be a crime to abandon your child, and it's not. It would be wonderful if it could be criminalized.

Our President has declared that the only privileged person in our country are the children.

Incredible. It never ceases to amaze Starkey how far society will go to protect the children it loves and to discard the ones it doesn’t.