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If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more.
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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One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called weasel words.
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Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.
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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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I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more.
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For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty let us live in the harness, striving mightily let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
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The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life.
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
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It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
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