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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.
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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No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor afford to make powerful and unscrupulous foes, if he is himself vulnerable in his private character.
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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
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A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.
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I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.
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Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.
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No man can do both effective and decent work in public life unless he is a practical politician on the one hand, and a sturdy believer in Sunday-school politics on the other. He must always strive manfully for the best, and yet, like Abraham Lincoln, must often resign himself to accept the best possible.
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Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.
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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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Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.
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There is but one answer to terrorism and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle.
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