Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, Fall Quotes, Wickedness Quotes

Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf of wickedness on the other, and it helps not to have avoided one gulf if you fall into the other.

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Conservation means development as much as it does protection. A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.

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Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business interests too often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit. We must drive the special interests out of politics.

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Every special interest is entitled to justice - full, fair, and complete... but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench, or to representation in any public office.

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The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own. Probably the best test of true love of liberty in any country is the way in which minorities are treated in that country. Not only should there be complete liberty in matters of religion and opinion, but complete liberty for each man to lead his life as he desires, provided only that in so doing he does not wrong his neighbor.

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A leader is an average, everyday person who is highly motivated.

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The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.

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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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Each man must work for himself, and unless he so works, no outside help can avail him.

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Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

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Don't hit at all if you can help it; don't hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep.

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It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.

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If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.

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I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.

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Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference.

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Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare

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I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.

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We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.

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When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.

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There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality that there is no such thing as a new morality. There is only one morality . All else is immorality.

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