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There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.
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 one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.
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Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible this is not so.
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We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.
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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
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Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.
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I have had a great time as president.
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Mother went off for three days to New York and Mame and Quentin took instant advantage of her absence to fall sick. Quentin's sickness was surely due to a riot in candy and ice-cream with chocolate sauce.
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It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong.
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To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.
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Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them.... If they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone.
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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
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The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
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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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The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.
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It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.
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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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Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.
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To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.
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