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Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves and we can shrink neither.
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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There is nothing more distressing ... than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. Such laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes not merely the vacant mind, but the heart in which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition.
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The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life.
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In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.
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Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.
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My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have.
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The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased and not impaired in value.
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There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.
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Where a trust becomes a monopoly the state has an immediate right to interfere.
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The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.
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The hardest lessons to learn are those that are the most obvious.
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Make preparations in advance ... you never have trouble if you are prepared for it.
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It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.
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We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism.
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Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.
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Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.
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No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did.
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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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I am a part of everything that I have read.
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The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.
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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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