Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT90% of the work in this country is done by people who don’t feel good.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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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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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
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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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Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.
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Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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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.
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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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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.
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It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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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.
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In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
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With self discipline most anything is possible.
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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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