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
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.
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Public right comes first and private interests second.
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I took the canal zone and let congress debate, and while the debate goes on the canal does also
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The person who succeeds is not the one who holds back, fearing failure, nor the one who never fails... but rather the one who moves on im spite of failure. Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat. Author: Teddy Roosevelt
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There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head
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It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
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The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.
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A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one. Once he has left office he cannot do very much; and he is a fool if he fails to realize it all and to be profoundly thankful for having had the great chance.
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Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.
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Make preparations in advance ... you never have trouble if you are prepared for it.
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Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
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We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time and energy to industrial occupations. The monetary equivalent of a living wage varies according to local conditions, but must include enough to secure the elements of a normal standard of living-a standard high enough to make morality possible, to provide for education and recreation, to care for immature members of the family, to maintain the family during periods of sickness, and to permit of reasonable saving for old age.
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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible. I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary. No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible, and no uneducated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.