American - President | October 27, 1858 - January 6, 1919
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
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The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
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Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
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When 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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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
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Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
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No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
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Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
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I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
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To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
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