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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.
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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Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.
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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
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I stand for the square deal. I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service.
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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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Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.
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No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.
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Our words must be judged by our deeds and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction.
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We want the active and zealous help of every man far-sighted enough to realize the importance from the standpoint of the nation's welfare in the future of preserving the forests.
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The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
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Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
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Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers
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We do not admire a man of timid peace.
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When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
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Every man, who parrots the cry of ‘stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ‘so far as he serves the Republic’ takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent free man could take such an attitude.
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Nothing worth having comes easy.
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After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both.
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Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.
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