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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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Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare
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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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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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Our words must be judged by our deeds and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction.
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A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.
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The great man is always the man of mighty effort.
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The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
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Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.
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If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
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When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
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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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There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.
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If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.
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It's not the critic who counts.
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He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.
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I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.
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In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character.
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Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.
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The name Roosevelt has this legendary force in our country at this time.
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The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person) on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he is worthy to have.
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