This guy… Theodore Roosevelt’s biography reads like a larger-than-life litany of manly courage. He explored Africa, the Amazon, and the Dakota Badlands. He won the Medal of Honor, Nobel Peace Prize, and title Chief Scout Citizen. With a photographic memory, he was one of the most well read presidents. He hunted down outlaws, cleaned house when it came to political cronyism and the corrupt NYPD, patrolled crime-ridden New York streets late at night, led his Rough Riders in an uphill charge at San Juan on foot, sparred in jujitsu three times a week with Japanese in the White House, not to mention packing heat as president. Once a guy tried to assassinate him, shooting him point blank. Roosevelt just shook it off and went on to give a speech with a hole in his chest.
"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 credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
"The nation must make ready the tools and train the men to use them, but at the crisis a great triumph can be achieved only should some heroic man appear." - Theodore Roosevelt
- Theodore Roosevelt
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