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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 absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), The City in Modern Life, 1926
- To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Remarks to Harvard and Yale undergraduates invited to Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, Long Island, June 1901
- Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Thomas Hart Benton, Chapter 12, 1897
- Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure , than to take rank with those poor spires who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure , than to take rank with those poor spires who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Speech, San Francisco, May 13, 1903
- The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part in the world. Fate has made that choice for us. The only question is whether we will play the part well or badly.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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