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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
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 chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.
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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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Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs.
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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 vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice for it is always a confession of inferiority. It may promote conduct which will be fruitful of wrong to others, and it must cause misery to the man who feels it.
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McKinley shows all the background of a chocolate eclair.
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Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
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The hardest lessons to learn are those that are the most obvious.
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I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.
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The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
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If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
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Obedience of the law is demanded not asked as a favor.
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I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his father in this respect, and will prove able to play the national game.
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The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.
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In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
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Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
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I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.
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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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Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great desert wastes alike...If it can it will get out of the way, and only coils up in its attitude of defence when it believes that it is actually menaced.
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