The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTNo 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.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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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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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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It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.
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Politeness is a sign of dignity not subservience.
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Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.
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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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I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
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If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
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All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.
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We are the heirs of the ages.
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Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
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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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In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.
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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
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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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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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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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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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Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
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Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.
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It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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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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