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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.

“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

All Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

“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

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Great

“Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Freedom

“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

“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Car

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

History

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Life

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Government

“Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Work

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Learning

“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Failure

“Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Men

“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Men

“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Leadership

“Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Death

“The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Good

“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Society

“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

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Life

“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