Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, Thanksgiving Quotes, Gratitude Quotes

No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with the gratitude to the Giver of good who has blessed us.

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We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.

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Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.

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I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action.

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The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat slothfully by while they destroyed. We have passed this stage.... Here in the U.S. we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy our forests and exterminate fishes, birds and mammals - not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at best it looks as if our people were awakening.

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From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady unwearing friend of man.

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Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

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wild flowers should be enjoyed unplucked where they grow.

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A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.

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The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman. The rude, fierce settler who drives the savage from the land lays all civilized mankind under a debt to him. ...[I]t is of incalculable importance that America, Australia, and Siberia should pass out of the hands of their red, black, and yellow aboriginal owners, and become the heritage of the dominant world races.

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There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful.

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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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I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair share of business prosperity. But it either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anybody can get any benefit from it.

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I am a part of everything that I have read.

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Property belongs to man and not man to property.

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I'm as strong as a bull moose and you can use me to the limit.

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Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

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The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.

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It is not the critic who counts

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Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground.

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