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.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTIt 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.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
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Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
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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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Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.
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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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Nothing worth having comes easy.
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Be practical as well as generous in your ideals.
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It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself.
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All the resources we need are in the mind.
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In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
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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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Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.
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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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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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In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.
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