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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Every man, who parrots the cry of ‘stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ‘so far as he serves the Republic’ takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent free man could take such an attitude.
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It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs to them and not to their servants in office—any other theory is incompatible with the foundation principles of our government.
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A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal; the conditions under which they have lived and have done their work have been better than in any similar work ever undertaken in the tropics; they have all felt an eager pride in their work; and they have made not only America but the whole world their debtors by what they have accomplished.
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Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.
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The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.
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Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.
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The object of government is the welfare of the people.
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No triumph of peace can equal the armed triumph of war.
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To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!
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The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak.
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Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.
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A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized yet.
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It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.
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The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.