QUOTES by Theodore Roosevelt
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"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not Guilty."
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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 first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight."
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"I took the canal zone and let congress debate, and while the debate goes on the canal does also"
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"There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering."
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"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."
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"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."
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"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life."
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"Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures."
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"No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse."
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"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."
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"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind."
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"Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace."
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"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards."
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"The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats."
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"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."
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"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!"
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"No people is fully civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse"
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"The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead."
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"It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize."
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"I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also."
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"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."
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"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."
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"The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly."
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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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"It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
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"It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home."
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"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never tasted victory or defeat."
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"There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head"
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"In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is:hit the line hard."
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"Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking."
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"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering"
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"Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the"
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"If I must choose between peace and righteousness, I choose righteousness"
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"Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping."
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