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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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What I am to be, I am becoming.
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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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Obedience of the law is demanded not asked as a favor.
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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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In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.
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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
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Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?
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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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I stand for the square deal. I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service.
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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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In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and must play a great part in the world. It is not open to us to choose whether we will play that great part or not.
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The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.
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There is no effort without error or shortcoming.
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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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It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he is morally stronger, but that he is intellectually weaker. He is not more virtuous. He is simply more foolish.
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The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American
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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
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It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.
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We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.
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Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are also necessary to the full and many-sided development of a fine race.
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