Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThere are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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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.
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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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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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Be practical as well as generous in your ideals.
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People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
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The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
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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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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 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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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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I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.
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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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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
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We are the heirs of the ages.
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It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.
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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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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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Patriotism means to stand by the country.
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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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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
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In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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