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Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.
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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Toward all other nations, large and small, our attitude must be one of cordial and sincere friendship. We must show not only in our words, but in our deeds, that we are earnestly desirous of securing their good will by acting toward them in a spirit of just and generous recognition of all their rights.
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Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.
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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
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Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.
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I am a part of everything that I have read.
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The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.
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Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action.
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The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.
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We here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men.
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We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.
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A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.
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I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
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To announce there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand with the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
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If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.
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There is no effort without error or shortcoming.
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I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in . . . a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, . . . increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.
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The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
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A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler.
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Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the Giver of Good and we seek to praise Him -not by words only -but by deeds, by the way in which we do our duty to ourselves and to our fellow men.
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It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.
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