Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, Country Quotes

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

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If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

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There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.

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There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country.

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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

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The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and reckless assaults on character, whether on the stump or in newspaper, magazine, or book, create a morbid and vicious public sentiment, and at the same time act as a profound deterrent to able men of normal sensitiveness and tend to prevent them from entering the public service at any price.

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To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

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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.

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The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a man whose wrong-headedness and distorted way of looking at things produced, or helped to produce, such incalculable evil; there is a wide political applicability in the remark attributed to a famous Texan, to the effect that he might, in the end, pardon a man who shot him on purpose, but that he would surely never forgive one who did so accidentally.

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Every child has inside him an aching void for excitement and if we don't fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and good for him, he will fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and which isn't good for him.

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Americanism is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not creed or birthplaces. The test of our worth is the service we render.

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Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat.

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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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Speak softly, I'm getting my massage.

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There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind

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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.

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A typical vice of American politics the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement.

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He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.

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What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.

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