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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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Let individuals contribute as they desire but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.
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The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.
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I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
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No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night.
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There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.
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I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.
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This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American trappers alike, the Bad Lands.
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I do not believe there ever was any life more attractive to a vigorous young fellow than life on a cattle ranch in those days. It was a fine, healthy life, too it taught a man self-reliance, hardihood, and the value of instant decision...I enjoyed the life to the full.
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The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.
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The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative
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The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books
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In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
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Nothing could be more lonely and nothing more beautiful than the view at nightfall across the prairies to these huge hill masses, when the lengthening shadows had at last merged into one and the faint after-glow of the red sunset filled the west.
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The White House is a bully pulpit.
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The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens.
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I do. That is character!
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The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
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In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall hit the line hard.
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What I am to be, I am becoming.
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