All Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Theodore Roosevelt
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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Theodore Roosevelt
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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
Theodore Roosevelt
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To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
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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.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
Theodore Roosevelt
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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
Theodore Roosevelt
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I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
Theodore Roosevelt
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When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
Theodore Roosevelt
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
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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.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
Theodore Roosevelt
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