A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThe 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.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself.
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Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.
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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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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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There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.
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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.
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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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It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
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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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Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.
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The 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.
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