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Theodore Roosevelt

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There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.


— Theodore Roosevelt


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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.


— Theodore Roosevelt


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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.


— Theodore Roosevelt


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


— Theodore Roosevelt


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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.


— Theodore Roosevelt


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Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.


— Theodore Roosevelt


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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.


— Theodore Roosevelt


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The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.


— Theodore Roosevelt


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Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.


— Theodore Roosevelt


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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.


— 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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