When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty’.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTWe 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.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.
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Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
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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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Nothing worth having comes easy.
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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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Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
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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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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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For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
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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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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
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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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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
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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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People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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