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Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

The American people abhor a vacuum.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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


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


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.


The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.


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.


Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it.


I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Life Quotes ,  Quotable Quotes

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


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.


No man is above the law, and no man is below it.