Theodore Roosevelt quotes - page 3

The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens. (Theodore Roosevelt)
We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord. View quote
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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. View quote
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With self-discipline most anything is possible. View quote
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Death is always and under all circumtances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one. View quote
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This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. View quote
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I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man. View quote
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Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world. (Theodore Roosevelt)
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. View quote
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Speak softly and carry a big stick. View quote
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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. View quote
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We cannot possibly do our best work as a nation unless all of us know how to act in combination as well as how to act each individually for himself. View quote
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I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character. View quote
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No country can long endure if its foundations are not laid deep in the material prosperity. View quote
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From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens. View quote
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No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor. View quote
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Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose. View quote
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I don't think any President ever enjoyed himself more than I did. Moreover, I don't think any ex-President ever enjoyed himself more. (Theodore Roosevelt)
The worst lesson that can be taught a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings. View quote
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If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base, and sordid creature, no matter how successful. View quote
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Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself. View quote
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To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing. View quote
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