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From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.
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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If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
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The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.
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I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.
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The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
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It may be that at some time in the dim future of the race the need for war will vanish: but that time is yet ages distant. As yet no nation can hold its place in the world, or can do any work really worth doing, unless it stands ready to guard its right with an armed hand.
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We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.
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The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.
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The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
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I have now run up against an ugly snag, the Sunday Excise Law. It is altogether too strict, but I have no honorable alternative save to enforce it and I am enforcing it, to the furious rage of the saloon keepers, and of many good people too for which I am sorry.
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Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made.
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Performance should be made square with promise.
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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
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Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
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There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel.
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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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It is not the critic who counts
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Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind
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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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There is but one answer to terrorism and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle.
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The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings
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