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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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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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Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big. ↗

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

— Elihu Root

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To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism. ↗

— Elihu Root

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Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice. ↗

— Elihu Root

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