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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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Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.
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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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The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great god, that is, of helping them to help themselves.
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Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head.
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I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
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The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages.
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What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.
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Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.
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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
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Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers
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I don't think any President ever enjoyed himself more than I did. Moreover, I don't think any ex-President ever enjoyed himself more.
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Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.
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