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The worst thing I can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt
Age: 60 †
Born: 1858
Born: October 27
Died: 1919
Died: January 6
26Th U.S. President
Autobiographer
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When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.
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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
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No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.
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I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait.
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The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.
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There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country.
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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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There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.
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My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.
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While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.
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Where a trust becomes a monopoly the state has an immediate right to interfere.
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No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
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There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by the exercise of those qualities which have always been the prerequisites of success - the qualities of hard work, of keen intelligence, of unflinching will.
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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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Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.
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There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else
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The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.
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I do not believe there was ever a life more attractive than life on a cattle farm.
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