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After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both.

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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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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 Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it ... the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense.
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Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few and the triumph in both politics and business of a sordid and selfish materialism.
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I stand for the square deal. I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service.
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I believe that there should be a very much heavier progressive tax on very large incomes, a tax which should increase in a very marked fashion for the gigantic incomes.
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In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
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I highly venerate the Masonic Institution, under the fullest persuasion that, when its principles are acknowledged and its laws and precepts obeyed, it comes nearest to the Christian religion, in its moral effects and influence, of any institution with which I am acquainted.
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The name Roosevelt has this legendary force in our country at this time.
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Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.
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The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
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The man who does not think it was America's duty to fight for her own sake in view of the infamous conduct of Germany toward us stands on a level with a man who wouldn't think it necessary to fight in a private quarrel because his wife's face was slapped.
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Just as you believe you may have already halfway there
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The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man.
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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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