American - President | October 27, 1858 - January 6, 1919
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
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I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
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The American people abhor a vacuum.
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When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
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I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
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Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
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The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
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Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
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A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
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