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Theodore Roosevelt Inspirational Quotes (425)

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At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.
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It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong.
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Do nothing to mar its grandeur ... keep it for your children, your children's children, and all who come after you, as the one great sight which every American should see.
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Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail.
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If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
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I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.
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Honesty first then courage then brains - and all are indispensable.
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A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.
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If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.
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I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.
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We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.
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I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.
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The man who does not think it was America's duty to fight for her own sake in view of the infamous conduct of Germany toward us stands on a level with a man who wouldn't think it necessary to fight in a private quarrel because his wife's face was slapped.
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The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.
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It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.
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There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter when the rocking chair in front of the fire simply demands an accompanying book.
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The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.
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Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.
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Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.
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The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.
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I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again but who does actually strive to do the deeds who spends himself in a worthy cause.
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I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.
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The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.
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