Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Opportunity Quotes

I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope - the door of opportunity - is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong.

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Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

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I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law.

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There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

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Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.

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All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law

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The general tendency towards an eight-hour working day has undoubtedly been healthful, and it is wise for the State to set a good example as an employer of labor, both as to the number of hours of labor exacted and as to paying a just and reasonable wage.

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The Cubists are entitled to the serious attention of all who find enjoyment in the colored puzzle pictures of the Sunday newspapers.

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Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

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It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.

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The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.

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The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.

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To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.

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The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth.

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I have already lived and enjoyed as much life as any nine other men I have known.

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Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.

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A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.

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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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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 an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

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