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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The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.
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There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head
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The person who succeeds is not the one who holds back, fearing failure, nor the one who never fails... but rather the one who moves on im spite of failure. Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat. Author: Teddy Roosevelt
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There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
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I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life
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If we do not protect the environment now, we cannot ensure a strong nation for our children, ... If we do not act today, many of these lands will be gone.
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No people is fully civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse
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The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.
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It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
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If I must choose between peace and righteousness, I choose righteousness
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We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
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There is a homely adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far
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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a meance to society.