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Whatever it is, handle it so that your children's children will get the benefit of 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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Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things.
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The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man.
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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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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting but never hit soft.
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Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.
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Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.
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It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
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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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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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I feel as fit as a bull moose.
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Where a trust becomes a monopoly the state has an immediate right to interfere.
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The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
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For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know
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The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect, and that any man who is able glibly to answer every question as to how to deal with the evils of the body politic is at best a foolish visionary and at worst an evil-minded quack.
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