Quotes By Theodore Roosevelt
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
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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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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
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When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
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Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
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The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.
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There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.
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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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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
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