Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Every American is dependent on every other American; that no segment of our people can prosper without the prosperity of all; that in truth we must all go forward together.

the people's poverty is no other than Our poverty; the people's prosperity is none other than Our prosperity.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.

Our future is our sense of common destiny.

We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new 'Declaration of Inter-dependence.' A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny.

We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.

America is a great country. We are so wealthy. But our one remaining challenge is to fulfill the potential of all our people. And the only way we can do that is to try to bring everybody together to a higher place.

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

When the sense of solidarity has been developed to such a point that each one feels the cause of all others as his own, we shall be drawing near to international and to social peace.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

We had said, it was either all of us or none of us.

My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

There's this tendency to think of the individual and the collective are somehow at odds or separate. But I think that's really false. We're all both. And when the individual suffers, the collective suffers, and vice versa.

Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.

Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

The destiny of the well-to-do is not separate from the destiny of the ordinary people.

Society’s willingness to provide for the poor among them increases when the standard of living is advancing.

I don't think any of us ran for the United States Senate to preside over the lowering of the American standard of living.