Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, Greatness Quotes, People Quotes

When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still in the prime of our lusty youth, still at the beginning of our glorious manhood, to sit down among the outworn people, to take our place with the weak and the craven? A thousand times no!

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In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrong doing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.

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I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.

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There are always in life countless tendencies for good and for evil, and each succeeding generation sees some of these tendencies strengthened and some weakened; nor is it by any means always, alas! that the tendencies for evil are weakened and those for good strengthened. But during the last few decades there certainly have been some notable changes for good in boy life. The great growth in the love of athletic sports, for instance, while fraught with danger if it becomes one-sided and unhealthy, has beyond all question had an excellent effect in increased manliness.

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The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.

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Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.

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Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers

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You can't choose your potential, but you can choose to fulfill it.

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In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

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An Airedale can do anything any other dog can do and then whip the other dog if he has to.

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Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.

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In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.

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In battle, the ONLY bullets that count are those that hit.

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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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The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.

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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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With great victory comes great sacrifice.

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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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Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

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