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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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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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Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are also necessary to the full and many-sided development of a fine race.
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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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Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
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Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.
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In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world.
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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
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The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.
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The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.
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If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more.
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Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
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No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor afford to make powerful and unscrupulous foes, if he is himself vulnerable in his private character.
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Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.
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This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American trappers alike, the Bad Lands.
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