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You can't choose your potential, but you can choose to fulfill it.
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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We do not admire a man of timid peace.
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I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.
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Every expansion of civilization makes for peace. In other words, every expansion of a great civilized power means a victory for law, order, and righteousness. ...It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.
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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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If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay.
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Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
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Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?
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There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.
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Comparison is the thief of joy.
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Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.
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It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong.
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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
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A President has a great chance his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.
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What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.
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The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.
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Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle.
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I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.
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Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
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Then get busy and find out how to do it.
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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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