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The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American
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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Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.
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The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.
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I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more.
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It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.
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Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.
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With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.
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I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.
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To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an improper profit and to build up privilege, would be ruinous to the Republic and would mark the abandonment of the effort to secure in the industrial world the spirit of democratic fair dealing.
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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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My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have.
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No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
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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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Honesty first then courage then brains - and all are indispensable.
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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.
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I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
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The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.
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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.
Theodore Roosevelt
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
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Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our house in order and begin to live within our means.
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