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Theodore Roosevelt Inspirational Quotes (425)

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The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American
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Every special interest is entitled to justice - full, fair, and complete... but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench, or to representation in any public office.
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We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life it matters not how brilliant his capacity.
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For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know
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The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.
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No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.
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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
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Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.
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The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.
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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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This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
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Power always brings with it responsibility.
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All for each, and each for all, is a good motto but only on condition that each works with might and main to so maintain himself as not to be a burden to others.
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It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.
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A typical vice of American politics the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement.
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.
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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
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The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.
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Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.
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If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more.
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
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In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.
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Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
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