Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, Voice Quotes, Justice Quotes

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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Performance should be made square with promise.

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Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

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Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.

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It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence.

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I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait.

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It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time.

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Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

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I do not dislike but I certainly have no especial respect or admiration for and no trust in, the typical big moneyed men of my country. I do not regard them as furnishing sound opinion as respects either foreign or domestic business.

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The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

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We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.

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Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from the oppression of wage workers to unfair methods of crushing out competition.

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A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor.

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We do not admire a man of timid peace.

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Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

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If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

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A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler.

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Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.

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It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.

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