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We imagine that human nature doesn't change. We like to say that but I don't think it's true because we have, in the course of the centuries, altered ourselves.


Theodore Zeldin

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THEODORE ROOSEVELT [America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we wer...
THEODORE PARKER My hat is in the ring.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they k...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virt...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square dea...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure,...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the hist...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the ch...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, a...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?
THEODORE ROOSEVELT We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always f...
THEODORE REIK Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upho...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT A mind too active is no mind at all.
THEODORE ROETHKE If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other pu...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the Preside...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first i...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
THEODORE PARKER Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed howeve...
THEODORE PARKER Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral...
THEODORE WHITE Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and ackn...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT