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Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
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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Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.
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The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law.
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Where a trust becomes a monopoly the state has an immediate right to interfere.
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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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Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.
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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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A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.
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Power always brings with it responsibility.
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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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We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.
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Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.
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Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.
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Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years.
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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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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 only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.
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There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else
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The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
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The great man is always the man of mighty effort.
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