We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTIf you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
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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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Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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Nothing worth having comes easy.
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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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It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself.
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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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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
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I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
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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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Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
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Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
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The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.
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Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.
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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 not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.
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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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Politeness is a sign of dignity not subservience.
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The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
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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 have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.
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A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
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