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Henry Adams
Henry Adams

[Describing Theodore Roosevelt:] ... pure act.
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Ryan Zinke
Ryan Zinke

I love Teddy Roosevelt... As a country, we need to think big again.
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John Morley
John Morley

[Describing Theodore Roosevelt:] Half St. Paul, half St. Vitus.
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Viscount Morley of Blackburn

Zig Ziglar
Zig Ziglar

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.
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H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken

One always thinks of him [Theodore Roosevelt] as a glorified bouncer engaged eternally in cleaning out bar-rooms—and not too proud to gouge when the inspiration came to him or to bite in the clinches.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt is perhaps one of the most colorful personalities in our history and will always be, I think, an influence on the youth of the country. His spirit was ever youthful and he lived his philosophy with all his might, never grudging in his praise of others, thereby bringing out in them the desire to meet his standards of integrity and duty.
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James B. Clark
James B. Clark

William Judas Bryan.
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In the Democratic national convention of 1912, Clark had obtained a majority of the delegate votes and was well on his way to the two thirds necessary for the Presidential nomination. William Jennings Bryan, a close personal friend of Clark's, headed the Nebraska delegation which had already instructed Bryan to vote for Clark. However, in a dramatic repudiation of his old friend, Bryan switched to Woodrow Wilson and turned the tide against Clark, who characterized Bryan as:

Barack Obama
Barack Obama

Teddy Roosevelt was called a radical—a socialist—even a communist.
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Obama had been commonly called a socialist by the extreme right even though his positions and statements were against socialism and he opposed major tenets of socialism like government ownership of utilities, banking and heavy industry. Obama scheduled this speech in a location in which TR had spoken in favor of his reforms. And he reminded the audience and the nation that the right wing had tried to tarnish Roosevelt by labeling him a socialist.