Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

American statesman

Alive from: 1858-1919

Category: Politics

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

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  Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.

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  It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
  

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  Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

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  The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.

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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 his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.

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  All the resources we need are in the mind

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  At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.

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  Believe you can and you're halfway there.
  

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

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  Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

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

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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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  Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.