There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. -
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance. -
I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began. -
My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction. -
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
More quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
- Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
- The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
- In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
- Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.