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I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
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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We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.
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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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Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle.
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These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government.
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The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.
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To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
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It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.
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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
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Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.
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Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after.
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Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.
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Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character.
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The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.
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Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.
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When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
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The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased and not impaired in value.
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There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously, neither hiding from ourselves the gravity of the problems before us nor fearing to approach these problems with the unbending, unflinching purpose to solve them aright.
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No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.
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Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail.
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Don't foul, don't flinch-hit the line hard.
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