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
catastrophe
Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.
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The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.
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Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.
government people welfare
The object of government is the welfare of the people.
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No triumph of peace can equal the armed triumph of war.
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To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!
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The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak.
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Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.
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A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized yet.
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It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.
becoming
What I am to be, I am becoming.
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The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.
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When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still in the prime of our lusty youth, still at the beginning of our glorious manhood, to sit down among the outworn people, to take our place with the weak and the craven? A thousand times no!
men squares merit
We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.