"If we would have our citizens contented and……" — Theodore Roosevelt
"If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play."
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Theodore Roosevelt
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531 Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt has 531 quotes on this site.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot, but it takes more…
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No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.
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We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.
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We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others…
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He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.
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If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more.
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No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did.
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I feel as fit as a bull moose.
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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.
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One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."
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The White House is a bully pulpit.
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We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.
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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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When on life's journey it becomes our lot to travel with criticism of skeptics, the hate of some, the rejection…
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If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with…
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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And this is the time. It is the time for this land to become again a witness to the world…
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Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one…
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