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Theodore Roosevelt
Age: 60 †
Born: 1858
Born: October 27
Died: 1919
Died: January 6
26Th U.S. President
Autobiographer
Conservationist
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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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There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.
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Your ability needs responsibility to expose its possibilities. Do what you can with what you have where you are.
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The public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on conditions that seem good at the moment should be subject to revision when changed conditions demand.
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We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.
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Conservation means development as much as it does protection. A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
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I do not believe there ever was any life more attractive to a vigorous young fellow than life on a cattle ranch in those days. It was a fine, healthy life, too it taught a man self-reliance, hardihood, and the value of instant decision...I enjoyed the life to the full.
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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
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Let individuals contribute as they desire but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.
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Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.
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The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.
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There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.
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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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Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose face is marred with dust and sweat who strives valiantly who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.
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I don't think any President ever enjoyed himself more than I did. Moreover, I don't think any ex-President ever enjoyed himself more.
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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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Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
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It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
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Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.
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