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The hardest lessons to learn are those that are the most obvious.

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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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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Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands on a continent and clasps the crest of an ocean in either hand. Our nation, glorious in youth and strength, looks into the future with eager eyes and rejoices as a strong man to run a race.
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The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.
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The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.
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My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have.
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Don't limit your challenges - challenge your limits. Don't spread patriotism too thin.
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Americanism is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not creed or birthplaces. The test of our worth is the service we render.
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The mother is the one supreme asset of national life she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.
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He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.
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The wild life of today is not ours to do with as we please. The original stock was given to us in trust for the benefit both of the present and the future. We must render an accounting of this trust to those who come after us.
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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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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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The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
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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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We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life it matters not how brilliant his capacity.
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The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.
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