Theodore Roosevelt
Quotations
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“Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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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.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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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.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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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.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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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.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“The government is us we are the government, you and I.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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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.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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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.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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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.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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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.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young. – Theodore Roosevelt
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