Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr.was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. As a leader of the Republican Party during this time, he became a driving force for the Progressive Era in the United States in the early 20th century...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth27 October 1858
CountryUnited States of America
boys waiting president
I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait.
wise mother children
Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years.
men air ordinary
The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.
christian law principles
I highly venerate the Masonic Institution, under the fullest persuasion that, when its principles are acknowledged and its laws and precepts obeyed, it comes nearest to the Christian religion, in its moral effects and influence, of any institution with which I am acquainted.
fighting competition hats
My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.
emotion preservation appeals
There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind
attention too-much needs
The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.
character vigor intellect
Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.
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The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life.
gratitude jobs attitude
Comparison with something that is better is the thief of joy. Comparison with something that is worse is a joy - full of relief and gratitude! You cannot always choose what happens to you or your circumstances but you can always choose your attitude by what you choose to compare your experiences or circumstances to and therefore how you will feel!! We can make any experience either a heaven or a hell by what we compare it to. Our emotions are 'an inside job!'
exercise police doctrine
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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There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter when the rocking chair in front of the fire simply demands an accompanying book.
hard-work exercise men
There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by the exercise of those qualities which have always been the prerequisites of success - the qualities of hard work, of keen intelligence, of unflinching will.
country lying law
The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.