All Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
Theodore Roosevelt
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We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Theodore Roosevelt
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A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
Theodore Roosevelt
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It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
Theodore Roosevelt
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When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
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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.
Theodore Roosevelt
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A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
Theodore Roosevelt
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No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
Theodore Roosevelt
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