~ Theodore Roosevelt Quotes ~

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The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad.

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This truth should be kept constantly in mind by every free people desiring to preserve the sanity and poise indispensable to the permanent success of self-government.

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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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The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.

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Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose directly or indirectly.

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The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price peace at any price safety first instead of duty first the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.

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We demand that big business give people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honesdy endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

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Only those who are fit to live do not fear to die. And none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same great adventure.

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Our country offers the most wonderful example of democratic government on a giant scale that the world has ever seen; and the peoples of the world are watching to see whether we succeed or fail.

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We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

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To announce that there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile but is morally treasonable to the American public.

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It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry honesty and intelligence.

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One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called 'weasel words.' When a weasel sorrys eggs the meat is sorryed out of the egg. If you use a 'weasel word' after another there is nothing left of the other.

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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort pain difficulty... I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led diffcult lives and led them well.

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To waste to destroy our natural resources to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them.