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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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The eighth commandment reads, Thou shalt not steal. It does not read, Thou shalt not steal from the rich man. It does not read, Thou shalt not steal from the poor man. It reads simply and plainly, Thou shalt not steal.
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Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great desert wastes alike...If it can it will get out of the way, and only coils up in its attitude of defence when it believes that it is actually menaced.
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The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages.
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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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We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.
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Just as you believe you may have already halfway there
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Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our house in order and begin to live within our means.
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting but never hit soft.
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Whatever it is, handle it so that your children's children will get the benefit of it.
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... looked at from the standpoint of the ultimate result, there was little real difference to the Indian whether the land was taken by treaty or by war. ... No treaty could be satisfactory to the whites, no treaty served the needs of humanity and civilization, unless it gave the land to the Americans as unreservedly as any successful war.
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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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To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
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I am an American free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
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Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.
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It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he shall go with hundreds of companions to see someone else play well.
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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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The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough.
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