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If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.
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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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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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
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A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk.
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After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both.
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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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[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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The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.
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The worst thing I can do is nothing.
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The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough.
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All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law
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I do not believe there was ever a life more attractive than life on a cattle farm.
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We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
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Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
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Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. You can only mar it. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. What you can do is keep it for your children, your children's children and for all who come after you.
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The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law.
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Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action.
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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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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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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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The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.
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