Theodore Roosevelt's Quote - Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only

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Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. – Theodore Roosevelt

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I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. – Theodore Roosevelt

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The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom. – Theodore Roosevelt

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