To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTEvery reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
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A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
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People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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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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90% of the work in this country is done by people who don’t feel good.
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We are the heirs of the ages.
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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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Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
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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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With self discipline most anything is possible.
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Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
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The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.
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All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.
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A man’s usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
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Comparison is the thief of joy.
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No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
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Patriotism means to stand by the country.
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It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.
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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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Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
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The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
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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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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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I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.
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