No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTI 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.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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All the resources we need are in the mind.
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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.
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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.
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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.
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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.
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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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For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
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A man’s usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
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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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Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.
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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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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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We are the heirs of the ages.
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