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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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Every man, who parrots the cry of ‘stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ‘so far as he serves the Republic’ takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent free man could take such an attitude.
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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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No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night.
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The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
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The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books
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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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Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.
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There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter when the rocking chair in front of the fire simply demands an accompanying book.
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Honesty first then courage then brains - and all are indispensable.
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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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The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person) on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he is worthy to have.
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It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.
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I do not believe there ever was any life more attractive to a vigorous young fellow than life on a cattle ranch in those days. It was a fine, healthy life, too it taught a man self-reliance, hardihood, and the value of instant decision...I enjoyed the life to the full.
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Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.
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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 object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens.
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Then get busy and find out how to do it.
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I am a part of everything that I have read.
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One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called weasel words.
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Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
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