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.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTIt is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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A man’s usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
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The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.
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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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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
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All the resources we need are in the mind.
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No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
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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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Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
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Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.
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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 reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
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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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Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.
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No 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.
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