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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt
Age: 60 †
Born: 1858
Born: October 27
Died: 1919
Died: January 6
26Th U.S. President
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The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man.
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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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I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
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The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
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The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased and not impaired in value.
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Americanism is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not creed or birthplaces. The test of our worth is the service we render.
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Mother went off for three days to New York and Mame and Quentin took instant advantage of her absence to fall sick. Quentin's sickness was surely due to a riot in candy and ice-cream with chocolate sauce.
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I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
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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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No President has ever enjoyed himself as much as I?
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There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country.
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The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who, out of these, wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
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Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle.
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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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Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
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We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage.
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I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot — but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.
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The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages.
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