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The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.
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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What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.
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The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.
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It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
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The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them, but it is duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control is shown.
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My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.
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The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative
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McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair.
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It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs to them and not to their servants in office—any other theory is incompatible with the foundation principles of our government.
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There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter when the rocking chair in front of the fire simply demands an accompanying book.
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The great man is always the man of mighty effort.
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We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism.
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The establishment of the National Park Service is justified by considerations of good administration, of the value of natural beauty as a National asset, and of the effectiveness of outdoor life and recreation in the production of good citizenship.
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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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You can't choose your potential, but you can choose to fulfill it.
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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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The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings
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We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.
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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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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again but who does actually strive to do the deeds who spends himself in a worthy cause.
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Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.
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