More from Theodore Roosevelt

  1. When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
  2. The canal was by far the most important action I took in foreign affairs during the time I was President. When nobody could or would exerci…
  3. When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
  4. When compared with the suppression of anarchy every other question sinks into insignificance. The anarchist is the enemy of humanity, the e…
  5. When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
  6. Roosevelt was a great personality, a great activist, a great preacher of the moralities, a great controversialist, a great showman. He domi…
  7. We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power…
  8. Death had to take him in his sleep, for if he was awake there'd have been a fight.

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