No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTIf given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
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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 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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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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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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Be practical as well as generous in your ideals.
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I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
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When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
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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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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
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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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It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don’t know anything outside their own business.
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No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
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