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

— 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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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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It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

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It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct. ↗

— Elihu Root

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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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My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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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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