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 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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Your ability needs responsibility to expose its possibilities. Do what you can with what you have where you are.
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The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitimate expenses of each of the great national parties, an appropriation ample enough to meet the necessity for thorough organization and machinery, which requires a large expenditure of money. Then the stipulation should be made that no party receiving campaign funds from the Treasury should accept more than a fixed amount from any individual subscriber or donor; and the necessary publicity for receipts and expenditures could without difficulty be provided.
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The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.
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A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized yet.
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The corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive.
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The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.
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All the resources we need are in the mind.
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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.
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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.