Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThe 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.
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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
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It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself.
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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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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
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When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
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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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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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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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In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
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The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly.
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The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
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A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
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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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