Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
THEODORE ROOSEVELTKeep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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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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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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To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
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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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The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
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90% of the work in this country is done by people who don’t feel good.
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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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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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Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.
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This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
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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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Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
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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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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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