The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTIn this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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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 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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I am a part of everything that I have read.
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Comparison is the thief of joy.
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90% of the work in this country is done by people who don’t feel good.
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A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.
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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
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When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
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I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
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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 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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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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It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.
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