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A leader is an average, everyday person who is highly motivated.
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 is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
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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 eighth commandment reads, Thou shalt not steal. It does not read, Thou shalt not steal from the rich man. It does not read, Thou shalt not steal from the poor man. It reads simply and plainly, Thou shalt not steal.
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There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.
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Whatever it is, handle it so that your children's children will get the benefit of it.
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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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The object of government is the welfare of the people.
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The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect, and that any man who is able glibly to answer every question as to how to deal with the evils of the body politic is at best a foolish visionary and at worst an evil-minded quack.
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The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it. Life is a great adventure, and I want to say to you, accept it in such a spirit.
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A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.
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If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
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Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism.
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Any political movement directed against any body of our fellow-citizens because of their religious creed is a grave offense against American principles and American institutions. It is a wicked thing either to support or oppose a man because of the creed he possesses. . . . Such a movement directly contravenes the spirit of the Constitution itself.
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No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.
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What I am to be, I am becoming.
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Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves and we can shrink neither.
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Conservation means development as much as it does protection. A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
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The light has gone out of my life.
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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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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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