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.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTAggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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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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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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Politeness is a sign of dignity not subservience.
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Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
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In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.
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For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
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No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.
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This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
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It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself.
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Be practical as well as generous in your ideals.
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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
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A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
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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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