"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer."

Roosevelt, Theodore on peace
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"Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping."

Roosevelt, Theodore on peace   

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

Roosevelt, Theodore on averages   

"The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day."

Roosevelt, Theodore on politics   

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty."

Roosevelt, Theodore on politics
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"The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice."

Roosevelt, Theodore on politics   

"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."

Roosevelt, Theodore on power
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"Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national death, race death; a sin for which there is no atonement. No man, no woman, can shirk the primary duties of life, whether for love of ease and pleasure, or for any other cause, and retain his or her self-respect."

Roosevelt, Theodore on creation   

"No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse."

Roosevelt, Theodore on public office   

"Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking."

Roosevelt, Theodore on purpose
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"Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world."

Roosevelt, Theodore on right and rightness   

"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 much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

Roosevelt, Theodore on risk
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"It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home."

Roosevelt, Theodore on risk   

"It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

Roosevelt, Theodore on risk
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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."

Roosevelt, Theodore on sacrifice   

"I want to see you shoot the way you shout."

Roosevelt, Theodore on soldier   

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

Roosevelt, Theodore on strength
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"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, Certainly I can! -- and get busy and find out how to do it."

Roosevelt, Theodore on success
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"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."

Roosevelt, Theodore on success
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"We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster."

Roosevelt, Theodore on blame
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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."

Roosevelt, Theodore on causes
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"No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

Roosevelt, Theodore on sympathy
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"It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize."

Roosevelt, Theodore on trade unions   

"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."

Roosevelt, Theodore on unemployment   

"Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures."

Roosevelt, Theodore on wealth   

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

Roosevelt, Theodore on wisdom   

"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."

Roosevelt, Theodore on words   

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

Roosevelt, Theodore on work
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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."

Roosevelt, Theodore on work   

"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering."

Roosevelt, Theodore on work
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"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

Roosevelt, Theodore on action
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"Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster."

Roosevelt, Theodore on action
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"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."

Roosevelt, Theodore on children   

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

Roosevelt, Theodore on colleges and universities
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"My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff."

Roosevelt, Theodore on competition   

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

Roosevelt, Theodore on courage
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"In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving."

Kopp, Sheldon on giving
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"You only get to keep what you give away."

Kopp, Sheldon on giving   

"The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands."

Kopp, Sheldon on understanding   

"All of the significant battles are waged within the self."

Kopp, Sheldon on courage
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