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Präsident / 26. / 1901 - 1909, Bau des Panamakanales, Friedens-Nobelpreis/1906 (USA, 1858 - 1919).

Theodore Roosevelt · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Theodore Roosevelt wäre heute 165 Jahre, 5 Monate, 30 Tage oder 60.447 Tage alt.

Geboren am 27.10.1858 in New York
Gestorben am 06.01.1919 in Sagamore Hill
Sternzeichen: ♏ Skorpion

• 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.
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• The men with the muck-rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society; but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
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• The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
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• The most successful politician is the one who says what everybody is saying - and says it the loudest.
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• The only one who makes no mistakes is one who never does anything!
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• The only true solution of our political and social problems lies in cultivating everywhere the spirit of brotherhood, of fellow feeling and understanding between man and man, and the willingness to treat a man as a man.
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• The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.
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• The true Christian is the true citizen, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down on his task because it is cast in the day of small things; scornful of baseness, awake to his own duties as well as to his rights, following the higher law with reverence, and in this world doing all that in his power lies, so that when death comes he may feel that mankind is in some degree better because he lived.
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• The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
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• There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only hundred percent Americanism.
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• There is a homely old adage which runs: 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.' If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.
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• There is a point, of course, where a man must take the isolated peak and break with all his associates for clear principle; but until that time comes he must work, if he would be of use, with men as they are. As long as the good in them overbalances the evil, let him work with them for the best that can be obtained.
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• There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
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• There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
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• There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders for the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this.
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• Though conditions have grown puzzling in their complexity, though changes have been vast, yet we may remain absolutely sure of one thing; that now as ever in the past, and as it will ever be in the future, there can be no substitute for elemental virtues, for the elemental qualities to which we allude when we speak of a man, not only as a good man, but as emphatically a man. We can build up the standard of individual citizenship and individual well-being, we can raise the national standard and make it what it can and shall be made, only by each of us steadfastly keeping in mind that there can be no substitute for the world-old-common-place qualities of truth, justice, and courage, thrift, industry, common sense and genuine sympathy with the fellow feelings of others.
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• Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.
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• We demand that big business give people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right, he shall himself be given a square deal.
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• When we control business in the public interest we are also bound to encourage it in the public interest or it will be a bad thing for everybody and worst of all for those on whose behalf the control is nominally exercised.
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• You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create prosperity. But you can very easily destroy prosperity by law.
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