Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, Peace Quotes, War Quotes

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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War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.

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It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.

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I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender.

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We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.

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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

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I regard the Masonic institution as one of the means ordained by the Supreme Architect to enable mankind to work out the problem of destiny; to fight against, and overcome, the weaknesses and imperfections of his nature, and at last to attain to that true life of which death is the herald and the grave the portal.

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The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

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The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.

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It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone.

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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

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Mother went off for three days to New York and Mame and Quentin took instant advantage of her absence to fall sick. Quentin's sickness was surely due to a riot in candy and ice-cream with chocolate sauce.

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No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did.

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The Cubists are entitled to the serious attention of all who find enjoyment in the colored puzzle pictures of the Sunday newspapers.

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Ruin looks us in the face if we judge a man by his position instead of judging him by his conduct in that position.

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All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.

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Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.

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I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

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In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in reality, do their feeble best for unrighteousness. Just as the upright politician should hold in peculiar scorn the man who makes the name of politician a reproach and a shame, so the genuine reformer should realize that the cause he champions is especially jeopardized by the mock reformer who does what he can to make reform a laughingstock among decent men.

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I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.

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