Tasks Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

9 Tasks quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

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Theodore Roosevelt championed the ethic of doing. This set of nine quotes gives a concise, energetic glimpse into his belief that tasks are the engine of progress.

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...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

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Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our…

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We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both…

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There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither…

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Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this…

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The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to…

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The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down…

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Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war,…

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The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master…

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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

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There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.

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

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Argument weak; speak loudly!

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Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on…

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The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and…

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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

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Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law…

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It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he…

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I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the…

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Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly…

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The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either…

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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…

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