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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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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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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.
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Don't foul, don't flinch-hit the line hard.
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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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The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased and not impaired in value.
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Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
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Then get busy and find out how to do it.
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Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character not only such qualities as honesty and truthfulness, but courage, perseverance and self-reliance.
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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
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To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
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Almost every man who has by his life-work added to the sum of human achievement of which the race is proud, of which our people are proud, almost every such man has based his life-work largely upon the teachings of the Bible
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No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting but never hit soft.
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The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.
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No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
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