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Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt
Time
Wisdom
Being
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Theodore Roosevelt
History
Life
Man
Name
Worth
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Theodore Roosevelt
Work
Man
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
Theodore Roosevelt
Age
Success
Old
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
Theodore Roosevelt
Politics
Decency
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
Theodore Roosevelt
First
Weight
The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
Theodore Roosevelt
Government
The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
Theodore Roosevelt
People
Body
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
Theodore Roosevelt
Women
Wife
Countries
Man
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Theodore Roosevelt
Success
People
Formula
The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
Theodore Roosevelt
People
Successful
Thinking
Voice
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
Theodore Roosevelt
Children
Name
Want
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Theodore Roosevelt
Mistake
Man
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
Theodore Roosevelt
Country
Humanity
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Theodore Roosevelt
Effort
Freedom
Past
Present