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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.
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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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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I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in . . . a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, . . . increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.
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The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.
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