Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, Successful Quotes, Men Quotes

There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship. You get it by applying the old, old rules of decent conduct, the rules in accordance with which decent men have had to shape their lives from the beginning .. fundamental precepts, put forth in the Bible and embodied consciously or unconsciously in the code of morals of every great and successful nation from antiquity to modern times.

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Yes, my friend, and if you will steal for me then you will steal from me.

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

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There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else

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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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The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

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Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

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There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock market. One method is just pernicious to the body politic as the other kind.

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Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.

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

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Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

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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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The man who does not think it was America's duty to fight for her own sake in view of the infamous conduct of Germany toward us stands on a level with a man who wouldn't think it necessary to fight in a private quarrel because his wife's face was slapped.

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I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character.

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The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.

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The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will.

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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 one quality which sets one man apart from another- the key which lifts one to every aspiration while others are caught up in the mire of mediocrity- is not talent, formal education, nor intellectual brightness - it is self-discipline. With self-discipline all things are possible. Without it, even the simplest goal can seem like the impossible dream.

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If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world.

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I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

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