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Famous quotes containing the words theodore roosevelt, roosevelt and/or presidency:

    “It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.”
    —Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)

    “To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    “... how often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House ...”
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)