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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.” - Theodore Roosevelt, #OTD in 1910

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Ted Roosevelt, TR's oldest son, volunteered to lead the assault on Utah Beach on D-Day. He was 56 years old and the only general in the 1st wave. Ted died of a heart attack a month later and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. #MemorialDay

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In 1918, Quentin Roosevelt’s plane was shot down by German fighters in aerial combat over France. TR’s youngest child died at the age of 20. #WWI #MemorialDay

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Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. volunteered to lead the #DDay assault on Utah Beach #OTD in 1944. The 56-year-old was the only general in the 1st wave. Ted died of a heart attack 5 weeks later and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.

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“No republic can permanently endure when its politics are corrupt and base.” - Theodore Roosevelt, 1895

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Alice Roosevelt, TR’s oldest child, met Queen Elizabeth II at the White House in 1976. She was 92 years old at the time.

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"This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in." - former President Theodore Roosevelt in Chicago, #OTD in 1912

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Colonel Roosevelt and the Rough Riders, 1898

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Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders arrived in Cuba 125 years ago today.

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“My father…was the best man I ever knew. He combined strength and courage with gentleness, tenderness, and great unselfishness. He would not tolerate in us children selfishness or cruelty, idleness, cowardice, or untruthfulness." – TR #FathersDay

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Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. led the #DDay assault on Utah Beach #OTD in 1944. The 56-year-old was the only general in the 1st wave of the attack. Ted died of a heart attack 5 weeks later and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.

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“I believe in the men who take the next step; not those who theorize about the 200th step.” - President Roosevelt in a letter to journalist Lincoln Steffens, #OTD in 1908

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“It is sheer unmanliness and cowardice to shrink from the contest because at first there is failure, or because the work is difficult or repulsive.” - Theodore Roosevelt

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“It is not the man who sits by his fireside reading his evening paper, and saying how bad our politics and politicians are, who will ever do anything to save us.” - Theodore Roosevelt, 1894 [1/2]

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Two of TR’s sons are buried at the Normandy American Cemetery. His oldest son, Ted, died 5 weeks after leading the assault on Utah Beach on #DDay . Quentin, his youngest, was killed in action in France during WWI and was moved next to his brother in 1955.

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“The life of duty, not the life of mere ease or pleasure–that is the kind of life which makes the great man, as it makes the great nation.” - Theodore Roosevelt, 1916

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“Rich men and poor men both do wrong on occasions, and…all citizens alike should join in punishing the wrong-doer. Honesty and right-mindedness should be the tests; not wealth or poverty.” - Theodore Roosevelt

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Today is the 160th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. “As long as the English tongue is understood, so long shall Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg speech thrill the hearts of mankind.” - President Roosevelt in Gettysburg, 1904

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“It is always best to look facts squarely in the face, without blinking them, and to remember that, as has been well said, in the long run even the most uncomfortable truth is a safer companion than the pleasantest falsehood.” - Theodore Roosevelt, 1894

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"The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books." - Theodore Roosevelt

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“The toiler, the manual laborer, has received less than justice, and he must be protected, both by law, by custom, and by the exercise of his right to increase his wage.” - Theodore Roosevelt in his autobiography

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“No amount of intelligence and no amount of energy will save a nation which is not honest, and no government can ever be a permanent success if administered in accordance with base ideals.” - Theodore Roosevelt, 1894

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During his presidency, Theodore Roosevelt established approximately 230 million acres of public lands. This included 150 national forests, 51 federal bird reserves, 4 national game preserves, 5 national parks, and 18 national monuments.

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“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” - Theodore Roosevelt, 1917

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Tomorrow is the 104th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt’s death. “Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight.” - Vice President Thomas Marshall

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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.” - Theodore Roosevelt, #OTD in 1910

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"I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well." - Theodore Roosevelt, #OTD in 1910

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President Roosevelt in Yellowstone National Park, 1903

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“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt

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“We are against privilege in every form. We believe in striking down every bulwark of privilege. Above all we are against the evil alliance of special privilege in business with special privilege in politics.” - Theodore Roosevelt, #OTD in 1912

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“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” - Theodore Roosevelt, 1916

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125 years ago today, Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders departed Tampa, Florida bound for Cuba.

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"I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well." - Theodore Roosevelt, 1910

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“A self respecting man must insist on his rights; otherwise he neither deserves nor receives the respect of others.” - Theodore Roosevelt, 1916

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“I hope the Republican Party won't make it impossible for decent men to support them.” - Theodore Roosevelt writing to a friend, #OTD in 1915

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#OTD in 1906, President Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act. It established a national historic preservation policy and gave the president the authority to designate national monuments. (pic of Devils Tower, the 1st national monument)

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“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” – TR in the Kansas City Star, #OTD in 1918

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In 1918, Quentin Roosevelt’s plane was shot down by German fighters in aerial combat over France. TR’s youngest child died at the age of 20. #WWI #MemorialDay 🧵1/3

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“There are many rich people who so utterly lack patriotism, or show such sordid and selfish traits of character, or lead such mean and vacuous lives, that all right-minded men must look upon them with angry contempt.” - Theodore Roosevelt, 1897

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During his presidency, Theodore Roosevelt established approximately 230 million acres of public lands. This included 150 national forests, 51 federal bird reserves, 4 national game preserves, 5 national parks, and 18 national monuments. #EarthDay

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18-year-old Quentin Colón Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt’s great-great-great-grandson, is the youngest elected official in Washington, D.C. He serves as an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner.

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“He has both physical and moral courage in a degree rare in history.” - John Burroughs writing about his friend Theodore Roosevelt

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President Roosevelt spoke at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville 120 years ago today. “A gentleman does not boast, bluster or bully; he does not insult others.”

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"Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly." - Theodore Roosevelt in his autobiography, 1913

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"If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful." - Theodore Roosevelt in a letter to his son Kermit, 1915

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“To play the demagogue for purposes of self-interest is a cardinal sin against the people in a democracy.” – Theodore Roosevelt in his autobiography

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“When I am fighting to help the poor man, I am also upholding the cause of the rich man, for this country will not permanently be a good place for any man to live in unless it is a good place for all men to live in.” - Theodore Roosevelt, #OTD in 1912

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“We inherit as free men this fair and mighty land only because our fathers and forefathers had iron in their blood.” - Theodore Roosevelt, 1917

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“I don't think that any family has ever enjoyed the White House more than we have.” - President Roosevelt in a letter to his son Kermit, #OTD in 1904

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“I do not think that any two people ever got more enjoyment out of the White House than Mother and I. We love the house itself….We love the garden. And we like Washington.” - President Roosevelt in a letter to his son Ted, #OTD in 1904 #colorized

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Theodore Roosevelt had four sons and two daughters. #FathersDay

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“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.” - Theodore Roosevelt, 1916

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A haiku for TR’s 165th birthday: Rough Rider, rancher A reader and a writer An American

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“Theodore is one of the most lovable as well as one of the cleverest and most daring men I have ever known.” - Henry Cabot Lodge

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“There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors.” - President Roosevelt, 1903 [1/2]

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"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards." - President Roosevelt in a speech to veterans, 1903 #VeteransDay

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Theodore Roosevelt loved dogs. #NationalDogDay

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“Please put out the light.” - Theodore Roosevelt’s last words TR died in his sleep from a coronary embolism, 105 years ago today. He was 60 years old. “The old lion is dead.” – Archie Roosevelt in a telegram to his brothers

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“If I wished to accomplish anything for the country, my business was to combine decency and efficiency; to be a thoroughly practical man of high ideals who did his best to reduce those ideals to actual practice.” - Theodore Roosevelt in his autobiography

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“I do but little boxing because it seems rather absurd for a President to appear with a black eye or a swollen nose or a cut lip.” - President Roosevelt, #OTD in 1903

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Tomorrow is the 105th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt’s death. “Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight.” - Vice President Thomas Marshall

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“Nothing...can do more good in a community than a free library which offers to each man and to each woman the opportunity to help himself or herself to the wisdom that he or she has the ability or the desire to acquire.” - President Roosevelt, #OTD in 1904

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“In private life there are few beings more obnoxious than the man who is always loudly boasting, and if the boaster is not prepared to back up his words, his position becomes absolutely contemptible.” - Vice President Roosevelt, 1901

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“The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative...is the reason why we object to an unsupervised, unchecked monopolistic control in private hands.” - Theodore Roosevelt, #OTD in 1909

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“Brutality by a man to a woman, by a grown person to a little child, by anything strong toward anything good and helpless, makes my blood literally boil.” - President Roosevelt, #OTD in 1903

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“It is a dreadful misfortune for a man...to feel that his whole livelihood and whole happiness depend upon his staying in office. Such a feeling prevents him from being of real service to the people.” - Theodore Roosevelt in his autobiography

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"Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly." - Theodore Roosevelt in his autobiography, 1913 #colorized

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“The Republican party is now facing a great crisis. It is to decide whether it will be, as in the days of Lincoln, the party of the plain people, the party of progress...or whether it will be the party of privilege and of special interests.” - TR, 1912

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“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” - Theodore Roosevelt, 1917

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“No prosperity and no glory can save a nation that is rotten at heart.” - Vice President Roosevelt, 1901

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“Abraham Lincoln…embodied all that there was in the nation of courage, of wisdom, of gentle, patient kindliness, and of common sense.” – Theodore Roosevelt

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“With the life I have led it is unlikely that I shall retain vigor to a very advanced age, and I want to be a man of action as long as I can.” - President Roosevelt in a letter to his sister Bamie, #OTD in 1908

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“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” - Theodore Roosevelt, #OTD in 1917

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“The worst lesson that can be taught a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings. If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State.” - Theodore Roosevelt, 1897

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“Grant was no brawler, no lover of fighting for fighting’s sake. He was a plain, quiet man, not seeking for glory; but a man who, when aroused, was always in deadly earnest…” - Theodore Roosevelt #OTD in 1900, the 78th anniversary of U.S. Grant’s birth

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#OTD in 1902, President Roosevelt spoke at the centennial celebration of West Point. “During that century no other educational institution in the land has contributed as many names as West Point to the honor roll of the nation's greatest citizens.”

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#OTD in 1901, President Roosevelt dined with Booker T. Washington. This was the first time an African-American had been invited to a meal at the White House.

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"I do not believe that any man can adequately appreciate the world of today unless he has some knowledge of...[and] some feeling for...the history of the world of the past." - Theodore Roosevelt

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“His Americanism reached into the marrow of his bones.” - Naturalist John Burroughs on his friend Theodore Roosevelt

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#OTD in 1906, President Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower in Wyoming as the first national monument.

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“Every shred of power which a President exercises while in office vanishes absolutely when he has once left office. An ex-President stands precisely in the position of any other private citizen.” - Theodore Roosevelt in his autobiography

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“We cannot afford to turn out of college men who shrink from physical effort or from a little physical pain. In any republic courage is a prime necessity for the average citizen if he is to be a good citizen.” - President Roosevelt at Harvard, #OTD in 1907

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"No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it." - President Roosevelt in his third annual message to Congress, #OTD in 1903

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In this 1918 photo, Theodore Roosevelt holds his granddaughter Edith Derby. Edith lived to the age of 90 and was involved in conservation, politics, and preserving her grandfather’s legacy.

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“In private life there are few beings more obnoxious than the man who is always loudly boasting...It is both foolish and undignified to indulge in undue self-glorification.” - Vice President Roosevelt, 1901

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“We enjoy exceptional advantages, and are menaced by exceptional dangers; and all signs indicate that we shall either fail greatly or succeed greatly. I firmly believe that we shall succeed.” - Theodore Roosevelt, 1894

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“Train your children not how to avoid difficulties but how to overcome them; train your children not to shirk what is hard and disagreeable but to do it and to do it well.” - President Roosevelt at Ellensburg, Washington, #OTD in 1903

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"While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life." – Theodore Roosevelt

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“Nothing could offer higher promise for the future of our country than an intelligent interest in the best ideals of citizenship, its privileges and duties, among the students of our common schools.” - President Roosevelt, #OTD in 1904

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#OTD in 1906, President Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act. It established a national historic preservation policy and gave the president the authority to designate national monuments. (pic of Devils Tower, the 1st national monument)

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“It is a dreadful misfortune for a man to grow to feel that his whole livelihood and whole happiness depend upon his staying in office. Such a feeling prevents him from being of real service to the people while in office.” - TR in his autobiography

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“It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle of life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger.” - Theodore Roosevelt, 1916

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During his presidency, Theodore Roosevelt established approximately 230 million acres of public lands. This included 150 national forests, 51 federal bird reserves, 4 national game preserves, 5 national parks, and 18 national monuments. #EarthDay

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#OTD in 1884, Theodore Roosevelt returned to the Dakota Territory to set up Elkhorn Ranch. His wife and his mother had died on Valentine’s Day of that year.

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“Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above both is character.” - Theodore Roosevelt #colorized

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“If a man is a decent man in private life, if he is a good husband, a good neighbor, a man you would like to do business with, he is a good citizen.” - President Roosevelt, 1905 #colorized

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“I do not want to say anything that sounds cheap or demagogic, but I have much more trust in the man of moderate means, in the mechanic, the skilled handicraftsman, the farmer, than I do in the millionaire.” - Vice President Roosevelt, #OTD in 1901

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“Men forget that constructive change offers the best method of avoiding destructive change; and that reform is the antidote to revolution; and that social reform is not the precursor but the preventive of Socialism.” - President Roosevelt, 1907

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"Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly." - Theodore Roosevelt in his autobiography, 1913

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“The training given in the public schools must of course be not merely a training in intellect, but a training in what counts for infinitely more than intellect, a training in character.” - President Roosevelt in Philadelphia, #OTD in 1902

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1916 photo of Theodore Roosevelt with his grandson Kermit, Jr. Kermit served in the OSS during WWII. After the war, he became a CIA intelligence officer focusing on the Middle East.

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