Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, Men Quotes, People Quotes

The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect, and that any man who is able glibly to answer every question as to how to deal with the evils of the body politic is at best a foolish visionary and at worst an evil-minded quack.

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We [must] hold the just balance and set ourselves as resolutely against improper corporate influence on the one hand as against demagogy and mob rule on the other.

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I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his father in this respect, and will prove able to play the national game.

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The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens.

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I do. That is character!

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It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to apply to the problems of the present precisely the qualities which in other crises enabled the men of that day to meet those crises.

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The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.

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The establishment of the National Park Service is justified by considerations of good administration, of the value of natural beauty as a National asset, and of the effectiveness of outdoor life and recreation in the production of good citizenship.

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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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Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

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Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after.

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I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to keep the sense of proportion. It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object. I want you to keep in training the faculties which would make you, if the need arose, able to put your last ounce of pluck and strength into a contest. But I do not want you to squander these qualities.

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Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

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With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.

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Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

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There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter when the rocking chair in front of the fire simply demands an accompanying book.

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The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

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

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

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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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