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Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
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 American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
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He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.
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Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
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The object of government is the welfare of the people.
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Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.
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Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.
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Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.
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Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our house in order and begin to live within our means.
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Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
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The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
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I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
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There is no effort without error or shortcoming.
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These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government.
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