Presidents Roosevelt quotes
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I have great respect for these 2 men and their quotes....u may say that they were a product of their times...i think not....their words still ring tru....
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President Theodore Roosevelt Picture 1
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President Theodore Roosevelt quotes
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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.
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A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the
country is good enough to be given a square deal
afterwards.
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Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an
invisible government owing no allegiance and
acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
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Every immigrant who comes here should be required
within five years to learn English or leave
the country.
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I am only an average man but, by George, I work
harder at it than the average man.
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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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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.
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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible
for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
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Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it
and man can only mar it.
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No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor
do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to
obey it.
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No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all
times to risk his well-being, to risk his body,
to risk his life, in a great cause.
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One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use
what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel
sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you
use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing
left of the other.
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Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
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The boy who is going to make a great man must not
make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand
obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand
repulses and defeats.
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The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic
of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull
his own weight.
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The most important single ingredient in the formula
of success is knowing how to get along with people.
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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country
and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
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The things that will destroy America are prosperity-
at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead
of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the
get-rich-quick theory of life.
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The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at
all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
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There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country.
There is room here for only 100 percent. Americanism,
only for those who are Americans and nothing else.
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When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em,
'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do
it.
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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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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood.
We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage,
of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking
the rough work that must always be done.
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Picture 1
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt quotes
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who,
however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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A nation that destroys it's soils destroys itself. Forests
are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving
fresh strength to our people.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to
ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened
the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be
cruel to be tough.
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I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
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I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure
pick smart colleagues.
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If you treat people right they will treat you right...
ninety percent of the time.
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In our seeking for economic and political progress,
we all go up - or else we all go down.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their
own minds.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.
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There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor
- sail, not drift.
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When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and
hang on.
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