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 Quote
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
- Theodore Roosevelt Quote
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
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Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.
- Theodore Roosevelt Quote
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
- Theodore Roosevelt Quote
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
- Theodore Roosevelt Quote
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit softly.
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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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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius 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 Quote
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
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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.
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Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
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I am a part of everything that I have read.
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I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
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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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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
- Theodore Roosevelt Quote
I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.
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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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In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
- Theodore Roosevelt Quote
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
- Theodore Roosevelt Quote
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
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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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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.
- Theodore Roosevelt Quote
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
- Theodore Roosevelt Quote
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
- Theodore Roosevelt Quote
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
- Theodore Roosevelt Quote
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
- Theodore Roosevelt Quote
No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
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No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
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Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
- Theodore Roosevelt Quote
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
- Theodore Roosevelt Quote
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
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Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
- Theodore Roosevelt Quote
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
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Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
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The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt Quote
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt Quote
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 Quote
The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
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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.
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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
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The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.
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The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
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The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
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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 Quote
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
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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 Quote
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
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There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.
- Theodore Roosevelt Quote
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
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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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We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
- Theodore Roosevelt Quote
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not guilty."
- Theodore Roosevelt Quote
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
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