Political Quotes

Teddy Roosevelt

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Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. A member of the Republican Party, he was born on October 27, 1858, in New York. Roosevelt was a prominent leader of the Progressive Movement, advocating for domestic policies that included trust-busting, regulation of corporations, and conservation of natural resources. His administration is noted for significant reforms and the establishment of national parks and forests.

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May 7, 1903

Every college should strive to bring to development among the students the capacity to do good original work.

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May 7, 1903

I always envy you men of the Grand Army because you do not have to preach; you practiced.

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May 7, 1903

Any man who claims that there can be liberty in spite of and against the law is claiming that anarchy is liberty.

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May 7, 1903

We can solve aright all the difficult problems that come up because of and through our modern civilization.

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May 7, 1903

Each one of us must remember that any one may and will at times slip.

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May 7, 1903

In the war you had to have patriotism, but there was but little to be made of the man who was patriotic but who had a tendency to run away.

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May 7, 1903

In any regiment the man who has no loyalty to his fellows, no spirit of devotion to the flag, no desire to see the regiment stand high, to do his duty and see his fellows rise with him, that man, no matter how brave, or how able, is a…

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May 7, 1903

Ours is a government of equal rights under the law, guaranteeing those rights to each man so long as he in his turn refrains from wronging his brother.

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May 7, 1903

We are living right in the middle of them now, only we are living under pleasanter auspices.

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May 7, 1903

I cannot say how I have appreciated being here in your beautiful State and your beautiful city.

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May 7, 1903

I believe in the Monroe doctrine, and I believe in it not as an empty formula of words, but as something we are ready to make good by deeds.

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May 7, 1903

To think of the well-nigh incredible fact that all of this that I have been looking at—the city, the development of the country—that it has all occurred within twenty years.

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May 7, 1903

I believe in you. I believe in your future. I believe in our future.

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May 7, 1903

The thing that has impressed me most is that I am speaking to Americans just as I speak in any other section of the country!

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May 7, 1903

The first thing that the individual man has to do is to pull his own weight, to earn his own way, not to be a drag on the community.

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May 6, 1903

I wish to congratulate the men and women of this city upon the children.

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May 6, 1903

Good laws can do much. Good administration of the laws can do much.

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May 6, 1903

I cannot say to you how much I have looked forward to making the trip.

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May 6, 1903

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

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May 6, 1903

I think our citizens are more and more realizing that they wish to perpetuate the things that are of use and also the things that are of beauty.

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May 6, 1903

Forestry, irrigation, all the efforts of the nation and the State governments, all the efforts of individuals and of local associations are to be bent to the object of building up the interests of the home-maker.

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