Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Dreamer Quotes

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

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Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.

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We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.

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I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.

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Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.

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My experience...convinced me that tea was better than brandy, and during the last six months in Afica I took no brandy, even when sick taking tea instead.

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Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation - they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness.

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I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in . . . a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, . . . increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.

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I have had a great time as president.

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I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.

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Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.

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The party belongs to the millions of the rank and file. It does not belong to the handful of politicians who have assumed fraudulently to upset the will of the rank and file. The action of these men is in no sense "regular," as they claim it to be.... theft and dishonesty cannot give and never shall give a title to regularity.

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All that the law can do is to shape things so that no injustice shall be done by one to the other, and that each man shall be given the first chance to show the stuff that is in him.

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The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

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The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.

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Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit!

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The hardest lessons to learn are those that are the most obvious.

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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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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

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The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.

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