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 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.
effort intellectual done
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
rap credit done
I do not care a rap as to who gets credit for the work, provided the work is done.
good-life successful done
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.
men age done
From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done...but they will go down the stream like bubbles, they will vanish. But the work you have done will remain for the ages.
destiny age done
While the nation that has dared to be great, that has had the will and the power to change the destiny of the ages, in the end must die, yet no less surely the nation that has played the part of the weakling must also die; and whereas the nation that has done nothing leaves nothing behind it, the nation that has done a great work really continues, though in changed form, to live forevermore.
follow football line principle
In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is:hit the line hard.
best decision moment worst
In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
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No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
body cause great life man ready risk salt worth
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body - to risk his well-being - to risk his life - in a great cause
american-president wisdom
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
american-president government
The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
avoid hit possible softly
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit softly
american-president checkered dare enjoy far gray knows mighty neither nor poor rank spirits suffer though twilight victory win
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.