WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 12 Nov 2026 23:50:03 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg conflict avoidance – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Roosevelt, Theodore -- Speech (1899-04-10), “The Strenuous Life,” Hamilton Club, Chicago https://wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/18755/ https://wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/18755/#respond Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:28:10 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=18755 Let us therefore boldly face the life of strife, resolute to do our duty well and manfully; resolute to uphold righteousness by deed and by word; resolute to be both honest and brave, to serve high ideals, yet to use practical methods. Above all, let us shrink from no strife, moral or physical, within or without the nation, provided we are certain that the strife is justified, for it is only through strife, through hard and dangerous endeavor, that we shall ultimately win the goal of true national greatness.


Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer; US President (1901–09)
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