the one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight. . . It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.
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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.Theodore Roosevelt
Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.
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When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
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The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great god, that is, of helping them to help themselves.
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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.
Theodore Roosevelt
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Theodore Roosevelt
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