Theodore Roosevelt quotes - page 7

In private life there are few beings more obnoxious than the man who is always loudly boasting; and if the boaster is not prepared to back up his words his position becomes absolutely contemptible. (Theodore Roosevelt)
It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and which shall discriminate in favor of the honest and humane employer by removing the disadvantage under which he stands when compared with unscrupulous competitors who have no conscience and will do right only under fear of punishment. View quote
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Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf of wickedness on the other, and it helps not to have avoided one gulf if you fall into the other. View quote
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I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope - the door of opportunity - is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong. View quote
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I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law. View quote
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That farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who, having enabled the land to support himself and to provide for the education of his children, leaves it to them a little better than he found it himself. I believe the same thing of a nation. View quote
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Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction. View quote
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I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit. View quote
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Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience. View quote
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The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run. View quote
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In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans. (Theodore Roosevelt)
The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it. View quote
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There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother. View quote
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Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth. View quote
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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned. View quote
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The worst of all fears is the fear of living. View quote
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The teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally impossible for us to figure to ourselves what that life would be if these teaching were removed. View quote
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For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know. View quote
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I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened. View quote
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There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction. View quote
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Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat. (Theodore Roosevelt)
We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time. View quote
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The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books. View quote
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Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent. View quote
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It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching. View quote
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