Quote #87

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

More from Theodore Roosevelt

  1. If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had…
  2. In advocating any measure we must consider not only its justice but its practicability.
  3. I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.
  4. In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, h…
  5. I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
  6. It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is acco…
  7. I never would have become president if it had not been for my experiences in North Dakota.
  8. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

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