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McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair.
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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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
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Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.
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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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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
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Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.
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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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You can't choose your potential, but you can choose to fulfill it.
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Americanism is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not creed or birthplaces. The test of our worth is the service we render.
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The wild life of today is not ours to do with as we please. The original stock was given to us in trust for the benefit both of the present and the future. We must render an accounting of this trust to those who come after us.
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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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The worst thing I can do is nothing.
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The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part in the world. Fate has made that choice for us. The only question is whether we will play the part well or badly.
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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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War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.
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If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.
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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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All for each, and each for all, is a good motto but only on condition that each works with might and main to so maintain himself as not to be a burden to others.
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Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.
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The man who does not think it was America's duty to fight for her own sake in view of the infamous conduct of Germany toward us stands on a level with a man who wouldn't think it necessary to fight in a private quarrel because his wife's face was slapped.
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