Theodore Roosevelt

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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.
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Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all.
I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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.
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
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.
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

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