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All Quotes by author - Theodore Roosevelt

" Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. "

" A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. "

" A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. "

" Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved. "

" A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. "

" A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. "

" A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. "

" Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. "

" Believe you can and you're halfway there. "

" Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. "

" Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. "

" Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage. "

" Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft. "

" Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. "

" Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country. "

" Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe. "

" Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. "

" Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. "

" For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. "

" Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. "

" Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body. "

" Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. "

" Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. "

" I am a part of everything that I have read. "

" I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man. "

" I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character! "

" I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being. "

" If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. "

" If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. "

" In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. "

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