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Theodore Roosevelt Inspirational Quotes (425)

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I am a part of everything that I have read.
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Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.
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Gradually the true Mason gains experience in using these working tools and can observe subtler and subtler indications of personal flaws.
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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
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Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.
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There is nothing more distressing ... than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. Such laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes not merely the vacant mind, but the heart in which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition.
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The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect, and that any man who is able glibly to answer every question as to how to deal with the evils of the body politic is at best a foolish visionary and at worst an evil-minded quack.
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There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition.
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No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did.
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Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers
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No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.
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In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.
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Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.
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In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and must play a great part in the world. It is not open to us to choose whether we will play that great part or not.
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Don't limit your challenges - challenge your limits. Don't spread patriotism too thin.
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In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.
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Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character not only such qualities as honesty and truthfulness, but courage, perseverance and self-reliance.
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I feel as fit as a bull moose.
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Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.
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There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.
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The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.
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Whatever it is, handle it so that your children's children will get the benefit of it.
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I do. That is character!
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Almost every man who has by his life-work added to the sum of human achievement of which the race is proud, of which our people are proud, almost every such man has based his life-work largely upon the teachings of the Bible
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