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Thursday
Sep012011

Theodore Roosevelt

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

I have always been fond of the West African proverb "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."

To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.




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