If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThe reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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Comparison is the thief of joy.
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In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.
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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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Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.
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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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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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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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I am a part of everything that I have read.
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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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The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.
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Patriotism means to stand by the country.
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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
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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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