When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty’.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTIf given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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With self discipline most anything is possible.
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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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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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The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books.
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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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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
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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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It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself.
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All the resources we need are in the mind.
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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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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
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The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
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I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.
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