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More Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
Do Something Now. If not you, who? If not here, where? If not now, when?
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.
Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.
