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.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTIf given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
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Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.
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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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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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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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Politeness is a sign of dignity not subservience.
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I am a part of everything that I have read.
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Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
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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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When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
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Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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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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Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
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Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
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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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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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I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.
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No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
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Patriotism means to stand by the country.
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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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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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Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.
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If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
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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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