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Theodore Roosevelt

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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


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


— Theodore Roosevelt


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The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.


— Theodore Roosevelt


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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.


— Theodore Roosevelt


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It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.


— Theodore Roosevelt


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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.


— Theodore Roosevelt


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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.


— Theodore Roosevelt


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Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.


— Theodore Roosevelt


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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.


— Theodore Roosevelt


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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.


— Theodore Roosevelt


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" Leaving the convention with his idealism disillusioned by party politics Roosevelt said he had no further aspiration but to retire to his ranch in the Badlands of the Dakota Territory which he had purchased the previous year while on a buffalo hunting expedition. Media
Theodore Roosevelt was one of the first presidents whose voice was recorded for posterity. Wiegand has portrayed Roosevelt in all 50 US states.

On the world stage Roosevelt's policies were characterized by his slogan "Speak softly and carry a big stick". He successfully energized the GOP base as a highly visible campaigner to reelect President William McKinley on a platform of high tariffs the gold standard imperialism prosperity at home and victory abroad. He attended Harvard University where he studied biology boxed and developed an interest in naval affairs.

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