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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
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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Don't limit your challenges - challenge your limits. Don't spread patriotism too thin.
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If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.
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Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.
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We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism.
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I feel as fit as a bull moose.
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Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
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War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.
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A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.
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I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait.
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The eighth commandment reads, Thou shalt not steal. It does not read, Thou shalt not steal from the rich man. It does not read, Thou shalt not steal from the poor man. It reads simply and plainly, Thou shalt not steal.
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The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part in the world. Fate has made that choice for us. The only question is whether we will play the part well or badly.
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Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.
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It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.
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We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
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Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.
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Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.
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There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.
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It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
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