More from Theodore Roosevelt

  1. There is a curse on this house.
  2. Gentlemen: you have now reached the last point. If anyone of you doesn't mean business let him say so now. An hour from now will be too lat…
  3. I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
  4. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits wh…
  5. I have always been fond of the West African proverb 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.'
  6. Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one.
  7. I'm as strong as a bull moose and you can use me to the limit.
  8. I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.

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