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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No nation can be really great unless it is great in peace, in industry, integrity, honesty. Skilled intelligence in civic affairs and industrial enterprises alike; the special ability of the artist, the man of letters, the man of science, and the man of business; the rigid determination to wrong no man, and to stand for righteousness-all these are necessary in a great nation.
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Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business interests too often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit. We must drive the special interests out of politics.
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In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is:hit the line hard.
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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.
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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
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Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit softly
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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.
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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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At the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat
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The Winchester is by all odds the best weapon I ever had and I now use it almost exclusively. The Winchester is the best gun for any game to be found in the United States, for it is as deadly, accurate and handy as any, stands very rough usage, and is unapproachable for the rapidity of its fire and the facility with which it is loaded.
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the one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight. . . It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.