Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

In every extreme there is vice and not virtue.

Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet.

What you have to be concerned about are the extremists. On the whole, we need to understand the more moderate Muslims before they become more radicalized.

Now and then, there's a fool such as I.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.

Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.

Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves.

None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.

I've always had a very extreme personality, which gets me into major trouble, I'm always all or nothing, and I don't know the world "balance." I'm desperately trying to learn it because I think as you get older it becomes very important.

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.

It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.

I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd think it would be the easier path. You had to fight to be virtuous.

I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.

Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them.

God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.

Purity without balance is its own corruption.

It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.

The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Most virtue lies between two vices.

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.