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
wisdom memories struggle
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
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The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.
freedom mean past
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
strength peace thorough-knowledge
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
mean envy hatred
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
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So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
patriotic equality men
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.
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Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
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...let men express the intense admiration, which I share with all other Americans, of the record made by the Marines.
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All the resources we need are in the mind.
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Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
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For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
corporations needs speak
The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them, but it is duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control is shown.