Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

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Theodore Roosevelt

Profession : President

Birth : October 27, 1858

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.

Theodore Roosevelt

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

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I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

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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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Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

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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 pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Theodore Roosevelt

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 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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I am a part of everything that I have read.

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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 think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

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The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

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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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Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

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The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

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Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

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Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

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