American - President | October 27, 1858 - January 6, 1919
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
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The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
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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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No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
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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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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
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