"The supreme duty of the Nation is the……" — Theodore Roosevelt
"The supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. We pledge ourselves to work unceasingly in State and Nation for ... the protection of home life against the hazards of sickness, irregular employment and old age through the adoption of a system of social insurance adapted to American use."
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Theodore Roosevelt
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531 Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
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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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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is…
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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
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Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred…
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During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing…
— Roderick Murchison
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The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving…
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A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The…
— Elias Canetti
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In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought…
— John B. S. Haldane
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[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily…
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The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science.…
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Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses!…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions…
— Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle
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Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more…
— Robert Stawell Ball
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