Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
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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.
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
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A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
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To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
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Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
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There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
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Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
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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.
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Believe you can and you're halfway there.
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The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
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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, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
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Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
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The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
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The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
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Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
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The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
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The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
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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.
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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
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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.
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Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
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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.
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Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
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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.
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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
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The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
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No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
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The American people abhor a vacuum.
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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
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Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
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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.
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Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
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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.
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Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
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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.
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Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
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