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The First Requisite Of A Good Citizen In This Republic Of Ours Is That He Should Be Able And Willing To Pull His Own Weight.
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The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that
he should be able and willing to pull his own weight.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Related:
REDUNDANT, adj. Superfluous; needless; _de trop_. The Sultan said
There's evidence abundant To prove this unbelieving dog redundant....
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.
-- Theodore Roosevel...
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
-- Theodore Roosevel...
I trust the first lion he meets will do his duty. -- J.P. Morgan on Teddy Roosevelt's safari
QOTD: "He eats like a bird... five times his own weight each day.
The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.
-- Theodore Roosevel...
BONDSMAN, n. A fool who, having property of his own, undertakes to become responsible for that entrusted to another to a third.
Philippe of Orleans wishing to appoint one of his favorites, a dissolute nobleman, to a high office, asked him what security he would be able to give....
No man is above the law and no man below it. -- Theodore Roosevel