Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, Men Quotes, Firsts Quotes

In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American.

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What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.

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Performance should be made square with promise.

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In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wild life, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination.

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When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all.

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Argument weak; speak loudly!

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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

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Ruin looks us in the face if we judge a man by his position instead of judging him by his conduct in that position.

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Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.

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I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more.

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It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood.

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It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

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The party belongs to the millions of the rank and file. It does not belong to the handful of politicians who have assumed fraudulently to upset the will of the rank and file. The action of these men is in no sense "regular," as they claim it to be.... theft and dishonesty cannot give and never shall give a title to regularity.

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There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by the exercise of those qualities which have always been the prerequisites of success - the qualities of hard work, of keen intelligence, of unflinching will.

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Believe you can and you're halfway there.

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It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs to them and not to their servants in office—any other theory is incompatible with the foundation principles of our government.

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We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either.

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The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them, but it is duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control is shown.

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For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know

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What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.

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