Quote #94

Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.

More from Theodore Roosevelt

  1. Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
  2. Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
  3. It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
  4. Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
  5. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
  6. Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
  7. It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is acco…
  8. No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

All Theodore Roosevelt quotes