Quote #115

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

More from Theodore Roosevelt

  1. 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 thousa…
  2. The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they n…
  3. The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddlin…
  4. The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic-the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly…
  5. The American people are slow to wrath, but once that wrath is kindled, it burns like a consuming flame.
  6. 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.
  7. The American people abhor a vacuum.
  8. The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

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