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.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTNo man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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Comparison is the thief of joy.
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Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.
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In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena: whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.
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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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For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
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Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
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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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I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
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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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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
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