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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

Theodore Roosevelt Citizen First Good Citizen

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

Theodore Roosevelt Man Country Blood

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

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Life Man Name

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

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Leader Boss People

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Gentleman Courtesy Mark

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Thoughts Mind Speak

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

Theodore Roosevelt Man Obstacles Mind

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

Theodore Roosevelt Action Nation Rhetoric

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Life Man Risk

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt You Person Responsible

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Kind Decency Most

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt American Real Saying

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Man Action Moment

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

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt You Us

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

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Responsibility People

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

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Man Society Mind

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

Theodore Roosevelt Car School Man

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Time Wise Being

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Better Far Course

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

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt People The Most Important

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

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Past Effort Present

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Liberty Order Without
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