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It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

Theodore Roosevelt
Ambition, Dreamer, Doers
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.33, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural history, and my ambition was to be a scientific man of the Audubon, or Wilson, or Baird, or Coues type-a man like Hart Merriam, or Frank Chapman, or Hornaday, to-day.

Theodore Roosevelt
Ambition, Science, College
Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.24, Simon and Schuster