Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

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Theodore Roosevelt

Profession : President

Birth : October 27, 1858

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

Theodore Roosevelt

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.

Theodore Roosevelt

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

Theodore Roosevelt

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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The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

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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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It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

Theodore Roosevelt

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Theodore Roosevelt

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

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Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

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Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

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Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

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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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If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

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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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Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

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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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