I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.
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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Patriotism means to stand by the country.
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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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A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
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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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When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
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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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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.
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It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.
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90% of the work in this country is done by people who don’t feel good.
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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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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 government is us; we are the government, you and I.
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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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Comparison is the thief of joy.
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All the resources we need are in the mind.
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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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Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
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We are the heirs of the ages.
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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
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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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No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
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There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.
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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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Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
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