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Theodore Roosevelt — Portrait after a picture by Adam Cuerden (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Theodore Roosevelt

26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909

1858–1919

75 quotes, most often on America, Politics and Success. Part of the U.S. Presidents collection.

If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs.
- Responsibility
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.
Speech before the Colorado Live Stock Association, Denver, Colorado (August 29, 1910); in The New Nationalism (1910), p. 52
- Nature
- Responsibility
Happiness can not come to any man capable of enjoying true happiness unless it comes as the sequel to duty well and honestly done.
Address at the Prize Day Exercises at Groton School (1904)
- Happiness
- Responsibility

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