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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 cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life it matters not how brilliant his capacity.
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Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
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No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
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War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.
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I have had a great time as president.
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The worst of all fears is the fear of living
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Believe you can do it and you are halfway there
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There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.
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The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.
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Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.
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The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
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Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.
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The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American
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The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
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Do nothing to mar its grandeur ... keep it for your children, your children's children, and all who come after you, as the one great sight which every American should see.
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If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
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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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While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.
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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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