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Theodore Roosevelt


American
October 27, 1858
President
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The American people abhor a vacuum.


Theodore Roosevelt
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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.


Theodore Roosevelt
Tags: Government You Us
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With self-discipline most anything is possible.


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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.


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Tags: Man Doing Evil
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Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.


Theodore Roosevelt
Tags: Your Keep Eyes
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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.


Theodore Roosevelt
Tags: Get Never Man
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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.


Theodore Roosevelt
Tags: Society Man Mind
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The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.


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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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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.


Theodore Roosevelt
Tags: Age You Like
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Theodore Roosevelt
Tags: You Your Most
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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.


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Tags: Work Best Chance
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
Theodore Roosevelt
Tags: Best Our Make
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.
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Tags: Things Go Other
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.
Theodore Roosevelt
Tags: Great War Science
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
Tags: Good Best People
The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
Theodore Roosevelt
Tags: People Get Need