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.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTIt may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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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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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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The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
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Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.
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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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Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.
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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
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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 reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.
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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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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
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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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A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
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