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Theodore Roosevelt Inspirational Quotes (425)

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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
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The wild life of today is not ours to do with as we please. The original stock was given to us in trust for the benefit both of the present and the future. We must render an accounting of this trust to those who come after us.
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The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.
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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation.
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Every man, who parrots the cry of ‘stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ‘so far as he serves the Republic’ takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent free man could take such an attitude.
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We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. 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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The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
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The great man is always the man of mighty effort.
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We are the heirs of the ages
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Conservation means development as much as it does protection. A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
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Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare
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Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.
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My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.
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We here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men.
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Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism.
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With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.
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There is no effort without error or shortcoming.
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Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.
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What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.
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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
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Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
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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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