"Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we mus...

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I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.
More Theodore Roosevelt quotes
"In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
"Believe you can, and you're halfway there.
"Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
"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 them better. The c...
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
"I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
"Believe you can and you're halfway there.