If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTIt is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.
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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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Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
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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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Comparison is the thief of joy.
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There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.
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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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When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
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Be practical as well as generous in your ideals.
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I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
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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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We are the heirs of the ages.
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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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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
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A man’s usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
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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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Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.
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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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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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Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
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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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When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
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90% of the work in this country is done by people who don’t feel good.
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It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself.
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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 reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
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