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Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
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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Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action.
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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'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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I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait.
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Nothing could be more lonely and nothing more beautiful than the view at nightfall across the prairies to these huge hill masses, when the lengthening shadows had at last merged into one and the faint after-glow of the red sunset filled the west.
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