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My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.


Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure full...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unendin...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your h...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where th...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the bes...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I ha...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they kn...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when d...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT All the resources we need are in the mind
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! Tha...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousnes...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater d...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous ma...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A man who never graduated from school might steal from a freight car. But a man who attends college ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The Roman Republic fell, not because of the ambition of Caesar or Augustus, but because it had alrea...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT And now, first and foremost, you can never afford to forget for a moment what is the object of our f...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the lo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in ...
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