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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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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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The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

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The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate. ↗

— Elihu Root

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Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and women everywhere are sitting in judgment upon the conduct of all nations. ↗

— Elihu Root

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Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice. ↗

— Elihu Root

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