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Your ability needs responsibility to expose its possibilities. Do what you can with what you have where you are.
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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To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.
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Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.
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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
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Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements.
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Even in ordinary times there are very few of us who do not see the problems of life as through a glass, darkly and when the glass is clouded by the murk of furious popular passion, the vision of the best and the bravest is dimmed.
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Nothing worth having comes easy.
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I feel as fit as a bull moose.
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Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years.
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Never hit if you can help it, but when you have to, hit hard. Never hit soft. You'll never get any thanks for hitting soft.
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The chase is among the best of all national pastimes it cultivates that vigorous manliness for the lack of which in a nation, as in an individual, the possession of no other qualities can possibly atone.
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Conservation means development as much as it does protection. A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
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The worst of all fears is the fear of living
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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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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose face is marred with dust and sweat who strives valiantly who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.
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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
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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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Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.
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The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak.
Theodore Roosevelt
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.
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