26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909 (1858–1919)
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At 42, the youngest president in U.S. history, he walked into the White House after an assassination and turned it into a bully pulpit for trust-busting, conservation, and naval power — a sickly child who remade himself through what he called 'the strenuous life' and never stopped swinging.
Born October 27, 1858, Roosevelt fought debilitating asthma with a regime of vigorous exercise, studied natural history, and wrote The Naval War of 1812 while at Harvard, establishing himself as both historian and reformer in the New York State Legislature. After his wife Alice and mother died on the same day, he bought a cattle ranch in the Dakotas to recover, then returned as assistant secretary of the Navy, helped plan the naval war against Spain in 1898, and resigned to lead the Rough Riders in Cuba. The war hero became New York's governor in 1898, then vice president in 1900; six months l…
Sourced, dated quotes from Theodore Roosevelt
Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands on a continent and clasps the crest of an ocean in either hand.
The worst lesson that can be taught a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings.
There is much talk about "jingoism".
Of recent years... representative government all over the world has been threatened with a growing paralysis.
The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian.
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