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
men higher basements
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
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Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
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Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
mean men history
Conservation means development as much as it does protection. A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
iron history endurance
All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.
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In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.
life country character
In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
men history results
In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.
law government history
Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law. A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
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Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.
men law done
All that the law can do is to shape things so that no injustice shall be done by one to the other, and that each man shall be given the first chance to show the stuff that is in him.
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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.
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Then get busy and find out how to do it.
life history delight
There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.