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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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There is but one answer to terrorism and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle.
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A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.
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Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.
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It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
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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 vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice for it is always a confession of inferiority. It may promote conduct which will be fruitful of wrong to others, and it must cause misery to the man who feels it.
Theodore Roosevelt
I always keep my weather eye on the opposition of my seventh house Moon to my first house Mars.
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I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.
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We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
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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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Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.
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The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.
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We fight in honourable fashion for the good of mankind fearless of the future, unheeding of our individual fates, with unflinching hearts and undimmed eyes we stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord
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I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait.
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To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt
To announce there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand with the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
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In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and must play a great part in the world. It is not open to us to choose whether we will play that great part or not.
Theodore Roosevelt
I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in . . . a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, . . . increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.
Theodore Roosevelt
All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law
Theodore Roosevelt
I do. That is character!
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