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 ROOSEVELTBe practical as well as generous in your ideals.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
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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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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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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.
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena: whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
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Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
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A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
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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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Comparison is the thief of joy.
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Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.
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I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
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To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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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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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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