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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.
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 need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.
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Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head.
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There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons and our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children's children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred.
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Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others.
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Every expansion of civilization makes for peace. In other words, every expansion of a great civilized power means a victory for law, order, and righteousness. ...It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.
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The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.
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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.
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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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Just as you believe you may have already halfway there
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To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.
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This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
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We shall make mistakes and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.
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Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are also necessary to the full and many-sided development of a fine race.
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The name Roosevelt has this legendary force in our country at this time.
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An Airedale can do anything any other dog can do and then whip the other dog if he has to.
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With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.
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