Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

I didn't wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We're all that forever, and I've just grown older. I mean, I haven't lost anything. I've gained a few things.

We can neither ignore the history of the past nor create the future.

The king never dies. Rex nunquam moritur.

I am the father of the Centuries, the mysterious repository of fame; and the unknown Eternity was my mother; Infinity marks the borders of my realm; no sepulcher will ever hold me, for I am mightier than Death; my vision scans the past and the future, and through my hands the presence flows.

Lies here food for the worms yet the work shall not be lost.

I shall be active and vigorous even from the tomb.

When you're 21 you think, "Old people sound like this. Old people think like this." I don't think my ideas about aging and about eternal life changed that much, but it became more poignant to me as I did get older and I could better imagine, as you sort of inch closer to death every day, why legacy, more than aging, becomes important to people.

There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are

Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

I want to go on living even after death!

Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die.

The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.

Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history.

Money won't change you, but time will take you out.

I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay in the fact that he realized Athens was not immortal. I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal; but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.

I wish to go on living even after my death.