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It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong.
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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I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
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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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Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.
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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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There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously, neither hiding from ourselves the gravity of the problems before us nor fearing to approach these problems with the unbending, unflinching purpose to solve them aright.
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While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.
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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.
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It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he shall go with hundreds of companions to see someone else play well.
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The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American
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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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[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy and really good books on these subjects are as enthralling as any fiction ever written in prose or verse.
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Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.
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Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.
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More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle.
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The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.
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Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.
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Massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.
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