Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Wealth and power don't go together. Power cannot be brokered. To me, power is responsibility.

The greater the power, the greater the responsibility in its exercise.

Leadership is not a right-it is a responsibility.

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

I am the guardian of power, not its owner.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

With great power goes great responsibility.

Some call it power; I prefer to call it responsibility.

With great power comes great responsibilty.

Responsibility is the most important ability that a person can possess.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

All power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise.

Responsibility is the product of definite social arrangements.

Those who can, must obey.

Power invariably means both responsibility and danger.

You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

Ethics and power are separate.

Those who have the most power - whether famous TV anchors, rich Hollywood moguls, judges, Members of Congress, or the president of the United States - must decide how to exert that power: for corruption or for good.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.