A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThe government is us; we are the government, you and I.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
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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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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
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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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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
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No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
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90% of the work in this country is done by people who don’t feel good.
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To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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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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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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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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Politeness is a sign of dignity not subservience.
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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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