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There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Mother went off for three days to New York and Mame and Quentin took instant advantage of her absence to fall sick. Quentin's sickness was surely due to a riot in candy and ice-cream with chocolate sauce. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one. Once he has left office he cannot do very much; and he is a fool if he fails to realize it all and to be profoundly thankful for having had the great chance. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect, and that any man who is able glibly to answer every question as to how to deal with the evils of the body politic is at best a foolish visionary and at worst an evil-minded quack. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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McKinley shows all the background of a chocolate eclair. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We have room but for one Language here and that is the English Language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans of American nationality and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains ... -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The chase is among the best of all national pastimes; it cultivates that vigorous manliness for the lack of which in a nation, as in an individual, the possession of no other qualities can possibly atone. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person) on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he is worthy to have. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The eighth commandment reads, "Thou shalt not steal." It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the rich man." It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the poor man." It reads simply and plainly, "Thou shalt not steal." -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is better for the Government to help a poor man to make a living for his family than to help a rich man make more profit for his company. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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If we are to be a really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I hate a man who skins the land. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs to them and not to their servants in office - any other theory is incompatible with the foundation principles of our government. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used for the purpose of advancing any particular creed; and therefore that the public schools shall be nonsectarian and no public moneys appropriated for sectarian schools. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I have already lived and enjoyed as much life as any nine other men I have known. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There is no effort without error or shortcoming. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation - they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph from defeat. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so after his day's work is done he will have time and energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in carrying the general load. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Our country, we have faith to believe, is only at the beginning of its growth. Unless the forests of the United States can be made ready to meet the vast demands which this growth will inevitably bring, commercial disaster, that means disaster to the whole country, is inevitable. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Nothing could be more lonely and nothing more beautiful than the view at nightfall across the prairies to these huge hill masses, when the lengthening shadows had at last merged into one and the faint after-glow of the red sunset filled the west. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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All constitutions, those of the States no less than that of the nation, are designed, and must be interpreted and administered so as to fit human rights. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Nothing should be permitted to stand in the way of the preservation of the forests, and it is criminal to permit individuals to purchase a little gain for themselves through the destruction of forests when this destruction is fatal to the well-being of the whole country in the future. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State or the Army, or Navy should not desire to have very strong and positive people under him. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to apply to the problems of the present precisely the qualities which in other crises enabled the men of that day to meet those crises. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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This was my first real lesson in politics ... If you are cast on a desert island with only a screwdriver, hatchet, and the chisel to make a boat with, why, go and make the best one you can. It would be better if you had a saw, but you haven't, so with men. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done ... but they will go down the stream like bubbles, they will vanish. But the work you have done will remain for the ages. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization. But I believe they should be so regulated that they shall act for the interests of the community as a whole. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Work hard at work worth doing. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The general tendency towards an eight-hour working day has undoubtedly been healthful, and it is wise for the State to set a good example as an employer of labor, both as to the number of hours of labor exacted and as to paying a just and reasonable wage. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We sincerely and earnestly believe in peace; but if peace and justice conflict, we scorn the man who would not stand for justice though the whole world came in arms against him. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I entirely appreciate loyalty to ones friends, but loyalty to the cause of justice and honor stands above it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Every special interest is entitled to justice full, fair and complete ... but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench or to representation in any public office. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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In advocating any measure we must consider not only its justice but its practicability. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There has never yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I highly venerate the Masonic Institution, under the fullest persuasion that, when its principles are acknowledged and its laws and precepts obeyed, it comes nearest to the Christian religion, in its moral effects and influence, of any institution with which I am acquainted. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally impossible for us to figure to ourselves what that life would be if these teaching were removed. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man's heart and soul, the man's worth and actions, determine his standing. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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When men fear work or fear righteous war, when women fear motherhood, they tremble on the brink of doom; and well it is that they should vanish from the earth, where they are fit subjects for the scorn of all men and women who are themselves strong and brave and high-minded. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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With soul of flame and temper of steel we must act as our coolest judgment bids us. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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But the joy of life is a very good thing, and while work is the essential in it, play also has its place. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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With self discipline most anything is possible. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic
the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few and the triumph in both politics and business of a sordid and selfish materialism. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers -- Theodore Roosevelt
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believe you can and you're already halfway there -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The wild life of today is not ours to do with as we please. The original stock was given to us in trust for the benefit both of the present and the future. We must render an accounting of this trust to those who come after us. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Never hit if you can help it, but when you have to, hit hard. Never hit soft. You'll never get any thanks for hitting soft. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's the choice that something else is greater than that fear. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Lincoln-sad, patient, kindly Lincoln, who after bearing upon his weary shoulders for four years a greater burden than that borne by any other man of the nineteenth century laid down his life for the people whom living he had served as well-built upon his early study of the Bible. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is not the critic who counts ... The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena ... -- Theodore Roosevelt
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A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized yet. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The Northwest is essentially a national domain; it is fitting that it should be, as it is, not only by position but by feeling, the heart of the nation. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There comes a time in the life of a nation, as in the life of an individual, when it must face great responsibilities, whether it will or no. We have now reached that time. We cannot avoid facing the fact that we occupy a new place among the people of the world. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the world know that we are here and willing to pour out our blood, our treasure, our tears. And that America is ready and if need be desirous of battle -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man ... -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against the liberty of conscience, which is one of the foundations of American life. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The most practical kind of politics is the politics of Decency. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I stand for the square deal. I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Father is strength at home, strength in government and strength overseas. Mother represents upbringing, education, the spread of civilization. Children are the lower classes, the lower races, to be brought to maturity and then set free -- Theodore Roosevelt
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'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other. If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath, if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I don't think any President ever enjoyed himself more than I did. Moreover, I don't think any ex-President ever enjoyed himself more. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I have had a great time as president. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Any man who has met with success, if he will be frank with himself, must admit that there has been a big element of fortune in the success. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I violate no secret when I say that one of the greatest values in Masonry is that it affords an opportunity for men of all walks of life to meet on common ground where all men are equal and have one common interest. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Let us live in the harness, striving mightily. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice Roosevelt. (His 19-year-old daughter.) I cannot possibly do both. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that, whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and must play a great part in the world. It is not open to us to choose whether we will play that great part or not. We have to play it. All we can decide is whether we shall play it well or ill. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Where a trust becomes a monopoly the state has an immediate right to interfere. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty ... I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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90% of the work in this country is done
by people who don't feel good. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Make preparations in advance ... you never have trouble if you are prepared for it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The dreams of golden glory in the future will not come true unless, high of heart and strong of hand, by our own mighty deeds we make them come true. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Kings and such are just as funny as politicians. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse? -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Do not get into a fight if you can possibly avoid it. If you get in, see it through. Don't hit if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft. Don't hit at all if you can help it; don't hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I had always felt that if there were a serious war I wished to be in a position to explain to my children why I did take part in it, and not why I did not take part in it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The greatest gift life has to offer is the opportunity to work hard at work worth doing. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things ... -- Theodore Roosevelt
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This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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One of the prime dangers of civilization has always been its tendency to cause the loss of virile fighting virtues, of the fighting edge. When men get too comfortable and lead too luxurious lives, there is always a danger lest the softness eat like an acid into their manliness of fiber. The -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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You, the sons of the pioneers, if you are true to your ancestry, must make your lives as worthy as they made theirs. They sought for true success, and therefore they did not seek ease. They knew that success comes only to those who lead the life of endeavor -- Theodore Roosevelt
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No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who, having enabled the land to support himself and to provide for the education of his children, leaves it to them a little better than he found it himself. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady unwearing friend of man. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There is no reason why people should not call themselves Cubists, or Octagonists, or Parallelopipedonists, orKnights oftheIsoscelesTriangle, or Brothers of the Cosine, if they so desire; as expressing anything serious and permanent, one term is as fatuous as another. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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When we control business in the public interest we are also bound to encourage it in the public interest or it will be a bad thing for everybody and worst of all for those on whose behalf the control is nominally exercised. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I do not intend that our natural resources shall be exploited by the few against the interests of the many. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is time for us now as a nation to exercise the same reasonable foresight in dealing with our great natural resources that would be shown by any prudent man in conserving and widely using the property which contains the assurance of well-being for himself and his children. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Believe that you can and you are halfway there -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Just as you believe you may have already halfway there -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Believe you can do it and you are halfway there -- Theodore Roosevelt
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If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Only those who live and sleep in the open fully realize the beauty of dawn and moonlight and starlight. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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At times a man must cut loose from his associates and stand alone for a great cause; but the necessity for such action is almost as rare as the necessity for revolution. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Yes, my friend, and if you will steal for me then you will steal from me. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with the gratitude to the Giver of good who has blessed us. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It may be that at some time in the dim future of the race the need for war will vanish: but that time is yet ages distant. As yet no nation can hold its place in the world, or can do any work really worth doing, unless it stands ready to guard its right with an armed hand. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Even in ordinary times there are very few of us who do not see the problems of life as through a glass, darkly; and when the glass is clouded by the murk of furious popular passion, the vision of the best and the bravest is dimmed. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We do not admire a man of timid peace. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Perhaps the most incapable Executive that ever filled the presidential chair ... it would be difficult to imagine a man less fit to guide the state with honor and safety through the stormy times that marked the opening of the present century. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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No triumph of peace can equal the armed triumph of war. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere ... When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Far-seeing patriots should turn scornfully from men who seek power on a platform which with exquisite nicety combines silly inability to understand the national needs and dishonest insintcerity in promising conflicting and impossible remedies. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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With self-discipline, all things are possible -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers and kinfolk - I felt a great admiration for men who were fearless and who could hold their own in the world. And I had a great desire to be like them. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Councils of War never fight. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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In name we had the Declaration of Independence in 1776; but we gave the lie by our acts to the words of the Declaration of Independence until 1865; and words count for nothing except in so far as they represent acts. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We have come to a political deification of Mammon. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil and the gas are exhausted. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Is it only in the army in the Philippines that Americans sometimes commit deeds that cause all other Americans to regret?
[Theodore Roosevelt 1901 relating reports of water torture in the Philippines to lynching in the south] -- Theodore Roosevelt
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in the writing of good English is indispensable to any learned man who expects to make his learning count for what it ought to count in the effect on his fellow men. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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What I am to be, I am becoming. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I do. That is character! -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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All that the law can do is to shape things so that no injustice shall be done by one to the other, and that each man shall be given the first chance to show the stuff that is in him. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on -- Theodore Roosevelt
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You can't choose your potential, but you can choose to fulfill it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We must abandon definitely the laissez-faire theory of political economy, and fearlessly champion a system of increased Governmental control, paying no heed to the cries of the worthy people who denounce this as Socialistic. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is better to be faithful than famous. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Unjust war is to be abhorred; but woe to the nation that does not make ready to hold its own in time of need against all who would harm it! And woe thrice over to the nation in which the average man loses the fighting edge, loses the power to serve as a soldier if the day of need should arise! -- Theodore Roosevelt
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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I do not dislike but I certainly have no especial respect or admiration for and no trust in, the typical big moneyed men of my country. I do not regard them as furnishing sound opinion as respects either foreign or domestic business. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I must be wanting to be President. Every young man does. But I won't let myself think of it; I must not, because if I do, I will begin to work for it; I'll be careful, calculating, cautious in word and act, and so - I'll beat myself. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is character that counts in a nation as in a man. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Shooting well with the rifle is the highest kind of skill, for the rifle is the queen of weapons; and it is a difficult art to learn. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I do not believe that any man can adequately appreciate the world of to-day unless he has some knowledge of
a little more than a slight knowledge, some feeling for and of
the history of the world of the past. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character! -- Theodore Roosevelt
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If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We have room for but one loyalty, loyalty to the United States. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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As regards the extraordinary prizes, the element of luck is the determining factor. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope - the door of opportunity - is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Don't foul, don't flinch-hit the line hard. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part in the world. Fate has made that choice for us. The only question is whether we will play the part well or badly. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft! -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but NEVER hit softly. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The bulk of government is not legislation but administration. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The citizen must have high ideals, and yet he must be able to achieve them in
practical fashion. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Laissez-faire, says the professor, when it often means bind and gag that the strongest may work his will. It is a plea for the survival of the fittest - for the strongest male to take possession of the herd by a process of extermination. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Gradually the true Mason gains experience in using these working tools and can observe subtler and subtler indications of personal flaws. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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In battle, the ONLY bullets that count are those that hit. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Nothing is gained by debate on non-debatable subjects. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight ... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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When you get to the end of your rope, tie a know and hang on. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I always keep my weather eye on the opposition of my seventh house Moon to my first house Mars. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It's not the critic who counts. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude ... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding -- Theodore Roosevelt
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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss ... The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There must be absolute religious liberty, for tyranny and intolerance are as abhorrent in matters intellectual and spiritual as in matters political and material; and more and more we must all realize that conduct is of infinitely greater importance than dogma. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. You can only mar it. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. What you can do is keep it for your children, your children's children and for all who come after you. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Do nothing to mar its grandeur ... keep it for your children, your children's children, and all who come after you, as the one great sight which every American should see. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war.. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Let these innocent people be careful not to invest in corporations where those in control are not men of probity, men who respect the laws; above all let them avoid the men who make it their one effort to evade or defy the laws. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are also necessary to the full and many-sided development of a fine race. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The corporation that shrinks from the light would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us ... It is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it, that counts. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on conditions that seem good at the moment should be subject to revision when changed conditions demand. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There is honing to fear, bu fear itself/ -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character not only such qualities as honesty and truthfulness, but courage, perseverance and self-reliance. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he shall go with hundreds of companions to see someone else play well. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I am part of everything that I have read. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour of trial. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called 'weasel words.' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a 'weasel word' after another there is nothing left of the other. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrong doing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I do not believe there was ever a life more attractive than life on a cattle farm. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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brought home half a dozen flappers, killed with the rifle if I had been out after large game, or with the revolver if I had merely been among the cattle, - each duck, in the latter case, representing the expenditure of a vast number of cartridges. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The light has gone out of my life. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from the oppression of wage workers to unfair methods of crushing out competition. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I have now run up against an ugly snag, the Sunday Excise Law. It is altogether too strict, but I have no honorable alternative save to enforce it and I am enforcing it, to the furious rage of the saloon keepers, and of many good people too; for which I am sorry. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The White House is a bully pulpit. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has the moral right to withhold his support from an organization that is striving to improve conditions within his sphere. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There is need of a sound body, and even more need of a sound mind. But above mind and above body stands character-the sum of those qualities which we mean when we speak of a man's force and courage, of his good faith and sense of honor. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We are not building this country of ours for a day. It is to last through the ages. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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When money comes in at the gate, sport flies out at the window. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Our fight is a fundamental fight against both of the old corrupt party machines, for both are under the dominion of the plunder league of the professional politicians who are controlled and sustained by the great beneficiaries of privilege and reaction. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I'm as strong as a bull moose and you can use me to the limit. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our house in order and begin to live within our means. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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To hell with the Constitution when people want coal! -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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To play the demagogue for purposes of self-interest is a cardinal sin against the people in a democracy, exactly as to play the courtier for such purposes is a cardinal sin against the people under other forms of government. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The lunatic fringe in all reform movements. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The government is us; WE are the government, you and I.- Theodore Roosevelt -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Don't spread patriotism too thin. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Every child has inside him an aching void for excitement and if we don't fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and good for him, he will fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and which isn't good for him. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Want More Advice Like This? -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We want the active and zealous help of every man far-sighted enough to realize the importance from the standpoint of the nation's welfare in the future of preserving the forests. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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More and more it is evident that the State, and if necessary the nation, has got to possess the right of supervision and control as regards the great corporations which are its creatures. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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If there is one thing for which we stand in this country, it is for complete religious freedom, and it is an emphatic negation of this right to cross-examine a man on his religion before being willing to support him for office. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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My experience ... convinced me that tea was better than brandy, and during the last six months in Afica I took no brandy, even when sick taking tea instead. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Dreams are a dime a dozen. it's their execution that counts -- Theodore Roosevelt
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No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American trappers alike, the Bad Lands. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or a sense of superfluous aloofness from the world of real men who do the world's real work, then it has harmed that individual. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Life means change; where there is no change, death comes. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The object of government is the welfare of the people. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he is morally stronger, but that he is intellectually weaker. He is not more virtuous. He is simply more foolish. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair share of business prosperity. But it either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anybody can get any benefit from it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We fight in honourable fashion for the good of mankind; fearless of the future, unheeding of our individual fates, with unflinching hearts and undimmed eyes; we stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We [must] hold the just balance and set ourselves as resolutely against improper corporate influence on the one hand as against demagogy and mob rule on the other. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The nation behaves well if it treats its natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The establishment of the National Park Service is justified by considerations of good administration, of the value of natural beauty as a National asset, and of the effectiveness of outdoor life and recreation in the production of good citizenship. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The great man is always the man of mighty effort. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I was not going to earn money, I must even things up by not spending it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I do not believe there ever was any life more attractive to a vigorous young fellow than life on a cattle ranch in those days. It was a fine, healthy life, too; it taught a man self-reliance, hardihood, and the value of instant decision ... I enjoyed the life to the full. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Just as Lincoln got contradictory advice from the extremists of both sides ... so now I have to guard myself against the extremists of both sides. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There is but one answer to terrorism and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I can never afford to be in arrears with anything that I have to do; I must always be abreast or ahead of my tasks. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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He who makes no mistakes makes no progress. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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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. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Just as democratic government cannot be condemned because of errors and even crimes committed by men democratically elected, so trade-unionism must not be condemned because of errors or crimes of occasional trade-union leaders. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere; along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great desert wastes alike ... If it can it will get out of the way, and only coils up in its attitude of defence when it believes that it is actually menaced. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It's not the critic that counts. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The Gatlings at Santiago. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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If there is any one duty which more than another we owe it to our children and our children's children to perform at once, it is to save the forests of this country, for they constitute the first and most important element in the conservation of the natural resources of this country. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Individual, what is most important is to insist on the vital need of combining certain sets of qualities, -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Then there was Micah Jenkins, the Captain of Troop K, a gentle and courteous South Carolinian, on whom danger acted like wine. In action he was a perfect gamecock. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens shall have a square deal. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I believe that there should be a very much heavier progressive tax on very large incomes, a tax which should increase in a very marked fashion for the gigantic incomes. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is always better to be an original than an imitation. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State or the Army, or Navy should not desire to have very strong>strongstrong> and positive people under him. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Comparison is the thief of joy. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Boxing, jiu-jitsu, scaling the Matterhorn ... I did cardio before cardio was cool. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great god, that is, of helping them to help themselves. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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No President has ever enjoyed himself as much as I? -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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While President, I have been President - emphatically. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The worst thing I can do is nothing. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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No man in public position can, under penalty of forfeiting the right to the respect of those whose regard he most values, fail as the opportunity comes to do all that in him lies for peace. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the Giver of Good; and we seek to praise Him -not by words only -but by deeds, by the way in which we do our duty to ourselves and to our fellow men. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The man who does not think it was America's duty to fight for her own sake in view of the infamous conduct of Germany toward us stands on a level with a man who wouldn't think it necessary to fight in a private quarrel because his wife's face was slapped. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his father in this respect, and will prove able to play the national game. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I represent the public, not public opinion. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in ... a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, ... increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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All the resources we need are in the mind. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it rests with the Supreme Court to decide what they have really thought. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily given for the future. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Credit should go with the performance of duty, and not with what is very often the accident of glory. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time ... I once saw a man kill a lion with a 30-30 caliber rifle under certain conditions, but that doesn't mean that a 30-30 rifle is a lion gun. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter when the rocking chair in front of the fire simply demands an accompanying book. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I do not in the least object to a sport because it is rough. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by the exercise of those qualities which have always been the prerequisites of success - the qualities of hard work, of keen intelligence, of unflinching will. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I never won anything without hard labor and the exercise of my best judgment. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot, but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is out of the question for our people to rise by treading down any of their own number. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I have always said I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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In other words, character is far more important than intellect to the race as to the individual. We need intellect, and there is no reason why we should not have it together with character; but if we must choose between the two we choose character without a moment's hesitation. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Not trying is the surest way of achieving nothing at all. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We have room in this country for but one flag, the Stars and Stripes! -- Theodore Roosevelt
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A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is a mere truism to say that every nation, whether in America or anywhere else, which desires to maintain its freedom, its independence, must ultimately realize that the right of such independence cannot be separated from the responsibility of making good use of it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Give the brethren a chance to do something, anything, no matter how small or unimportant. A brother convinced that he is helpful is enthusiastic. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Power always brings with it responsibility. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know -- Theodore Roosevelt
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A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives; when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them; not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The power of the
journalist is great, but he is entitled neither to respect nor admiration because of
that power unless it is used aright. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I feel as fit as a bull moose. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Wild flowers should be enjoyed unplucked where they grow. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There are some timid souls that will never know victory nor defeat. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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No man is above the law, and no man is below it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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In a crisis, the man worth his salt is the man who meets the needs of the situation in whatever way is necessary. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves, and we can shrink neither. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We knew toil and hardship and hunger and thirst; and we saw men die violent deaths as they worked among the horses and cattle, or fought in evil feuds with one another; but we felt the beat of hardy life in our veins, and ours was the glory of work and the joy of living. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The position now taken by the Government is absolutely destructive of legitimate business, because they outline no rule of conduct for business of any magnitude. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Each man must work for himself, and unless he so works, no outside help can avail him. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear the neighborhood of man: the coyotes wail like dismal ventriloquists, or the silence may be broken by the snorting and stamping of a deer. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages ... -- Theodore Roosevelt
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People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care -- Theodore Roosevelt
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But we must keep steadily in mind that no people were ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I am old-fashioned, or sentimental, or something, about books! Whenever I read one I want, in the first place, to enjoy myself, and, in the next place, to feel that I am a little better and not a little worse for having read it. It -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality that there is no such thing as a new morality. There is only one morality . All else is immorality. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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A politician who really serves his country well, and deserves his country's gratitude, must usually possess some of the hardy virtues which we admire in the soldier who serves his country well in the field. Far -- Theodore Roosevelt
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You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create prosperity. But you can very easily destroy prosperity by law. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Almost every man who has by his life-work added to the sum of human achievement of which the race is proud, of which our people are proud, almost every such man has based his life-work largely upon the teachings of the Bible -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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And the combination is rare. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Performance should be made square with promise. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Gradually, however, I was forced to abandon the effort to persuade them to come my way, and then I achieved results only by appealing over the heads of the Senate and House leaders to the people, who were the masters of both of us. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Nowadays the field naturalist-who is usually at all points superior to the mere closet naturalist-follows a profession as full of hazard and interest as that of the explorer or of the big-game hunter in the remote wilderness. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind -- Theodore Roosevelt
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A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he renders service. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The American people abhor a vacuum. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Speak softly, I'm getting my massage -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is not the critic who counts -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice; for it is always a confession of inferiority. It may promote conduct which will be fruitful of wrong to others, and it must cause misery to the man who feels it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Whatever it is, handle it so that your children's children will get the benefit of it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Books are the ammunition of life. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or small boys, or tortures animals. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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An Airedale can do anything any other dog can do and then whip the other dog if he has to. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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A leader is an average, everyday person who is highly motivated. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Let men express the intense admiration, which I share with all other Americans, of the record made by the Marines. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The Cubists are entitled to the serious attention of all who find enjoyment in the colored puzzle pictures of the Sunday newspapers. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There were all kinds of things of which I was afraid at first, ranging from grizzly bears to "mean" horses and gunfighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid. Most men can have the same experience if they choose. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Americanism is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not creed or birthplaces. The test of our worth is the service we render. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The name Roosevelt has this legendary force in our country at this time. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I do not think partisanship should ever obscure the truth. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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My hat is in the ring. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Do Something Now. If not you, who? If not here, where? If not now, when? -- Theodore Roosevelt
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In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Black care rarely sits behind the rider whose pace is fast enough. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is far better to dare mighty triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to dwell with those poor and timid souls knowing neither victory nor defeat. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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With great victory comes great sacrifice. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I grew into manhood thoroughly imbued with the feeling that a man must be respected for what he made of himself. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit! -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The Forest and water problems are perhaps the most vital internal problems of the United States. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There should be at least ten times the number of rifles in the country as there are now. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else -- Theodore Roosevelt
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A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I want to see you shoot the way you shout. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Americans learn only from catastrophes and not from experience. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Don't limit your challenges - challenge your limits.
Don't spread patriotism too thin. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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In the same way I have always regarded boxing as a first-class sport to encourage in the Young Men's Christian Association. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Most certainly prize-fighting is not half as brutalizing or demoralizing as many forms of big business and of the legal work carried on in connection with big business. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The hardest lessons to learn are those that are the most obvious. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Life is a great adventure ... accept it in such a spirit. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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All for each, and each for all, is a good motto; but only on condition that each works with might and main to so maintain himself as not to be a burden to others. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf of wickedness on the other, and it helps not to have avoided one gulf if you fall into the other. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The only way to get good service is to give somebody power to render it, facing the fact that power which will enable a man to do a job well will also necessarily enable him to do it ill if he is the wrong kind of man. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The country's honor must be upheld at home and abroad. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Ruin looks us in the face if we judge a man by his position instead of judging him by his conduct in that position. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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I do not care a rap as to who gets credit for the work, provided the work is done. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them, but it is duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control is shown. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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We are the heirs of the ages -- Theodore Roosevelt
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Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it. -- Theodore Roosevelt