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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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It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. ↗

— 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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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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Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that. ↗

— Stephen Root

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Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts. ↗

— Elihu Root

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