90% of the work in this country is done by people who don’t feel good.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThe nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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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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Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
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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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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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When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
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A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
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Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
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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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Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
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The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
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There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.
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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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Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
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Patriotism means to stand by the country.
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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.
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When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
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It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself.
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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
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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 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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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
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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 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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