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 ROOSEVELTEvery reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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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.
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It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself.
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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.
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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.
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Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.
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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.
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I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.
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I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.
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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
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In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.
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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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