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Theodore Roosevelt

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Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) was the 26th President of the United States and one of the most dynamic leaders in American history. A soldier, naturalist, author, and reformer, Roosevelt championed conservation, consumer protection, and the "strenuous life." He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for mediating the end of the Russo-Japanese War.

“The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Dreams

All Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

“There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

History

“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Government

“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Best

“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Success

“The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Great

“When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Work

“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

History

“Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Great

“For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Success

“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Learning

“The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Women

“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Life

“No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Great

“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Time

“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Life

“The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Dreams

“Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Great

“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Good

“The government is us we are the government, you and I.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Government

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Best