Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr.was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. As a leader of the Republican Party during this time, he became a driving force for the Progressive Era in the United States in the early 20th century...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth27 October 1858
CountryUnited States of America
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I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in . . . a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, . . . increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.
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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.
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It's not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.
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I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait.
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Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years.
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The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.
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I highly venerate the Masonic Institution, under the fullest persuasion that, when its principles are acknowledged and its laws and precepts obeyed, it comes nearest to the Christian religion, in its moral effects and influence, of any institution with which I am acquainted.
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My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.
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There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind
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The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.
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Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.
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The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life.
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Comparison with something that is better is the thief of joy. Comparison with something that is worse is a joy - full of relief and gratitude! You cannot always choose what happens to you or your circumstances but you can always choose your attitude by what you choose to compare your experiences or circumstances to and therefore how you will feel!! We can make any experience either a heaven or a hell by what we compare it to. Our emotions are 'an inside job!'