#people

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ↗

— 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

#create #ends #get #happens #human

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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The American people abhor a vacuum. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#american #american people #people #vacuum

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

— Elihu Root

#cause #honest #honest people #injustice #justice

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war. ↗

— Elihu Root

#every #fancied #forward #governments #keep

Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others. ↗

— Elihu Root

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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial. ↗

— Richard Rorty

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The reason most people sweat is so they will not catch fire while they are making love. ↗

— Don Rose

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