Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTAll daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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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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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
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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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Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
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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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Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
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A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
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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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Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
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Politeness is a sign of dignity not subservience.
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The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
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For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
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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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Conservation means development as much as it does protection.
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