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Theodore Roosevelt Inspirational Quotes (425)

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Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State or the Army, or Navy should not desire to have very strong and positive people under him.
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Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.
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Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands on a continent and clasps the crest of an ocean in either hand. Our nation, glorious in youth and strength, looks into the future with eager eyes and rejoices as a strong man to run a race.
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There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.
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Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.
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Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men.
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Don't foul, don't flinch-hit the line hard.
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... looked at from the standpoint of the ultimate result, there was little real difference to the Indian whether the land was taken by treaty or by war. ... No treaty could be satisfactory to the whites, no treaty served the needs of humanity and civilization, unless it gave the land to the Americans as unreservedly as any successful war.
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When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all.
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I believe that there should be a very much heavier progressive tax on very large incomes, a tax which should increase in a very marked fashion for the gigantic incomes.
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When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.
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The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.
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We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.
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The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
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I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.
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I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair share of business prosperity. But it either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anybody can get any benefit from it.
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I'm as strong as a bull moose and you can use me to the limit.
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