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Theodore Roosevelt Inspirational Quotes (425)

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If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
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War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.
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A President has a great chance his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.
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To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.
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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
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Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
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The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.
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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.
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Nothing could be more lonely and nothing more beautiful than the view at nightfall across the prairies to these huge hill masses, when the lengthening shadows had at last merged into one and the faint after-glow of the red sunset filled the west.
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A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.
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There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.
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If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or a sense of superfluous aloofness from the world of real men who do the world's real work, then it has harmed that individual.
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One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called weasel words.
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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
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I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait.
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Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.
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I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.
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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose face is marred with dust and sweat who strives valiantly who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.
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There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country.
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Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
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Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the Giver of Good and we seek to praise Him -not by words only -but by deeds, by the way in which we do our duty to ourselves and to our fellow men.
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I violate no secret when I say that one of the greatest values in Masonry is that it affords an opportunity for men of all walks of life to meet on common ground where all men are equal and have one common interest.
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