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“We grew heartily to distrust the reformer who never denounced wickedness unless it was embodied in a rich man. Human nature does not change; and that type of “reformer” is as noxious now as he ever was. The loud-mouthed upholder of popular rights who attacks wickedness only when it is allied with wealth, and who never publicly assails any misdeed, no matter how flagrant, if committed nominally in the interest of labor, has either a warped mind or a tainted soul, and should be trusted by no honest man.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

“A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Hell, my joy in winning is always much smaller than my pain in losing.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

“for all the laws that the wit of man can devise will never make a man a worthy citizen unless he has within himself the right stuff, unless he has self-reliance, energy, courage, the power of insisting on his own rights and the sympathy that makes him regardful of the rights of others.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography