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Teddy Roosevelt persevered through illness and personal loss. Learn how his trials became the guiding principles of his adult life and his presidency. Roosevelt idolized his father and his father’s values were instilled in the 26th president. Roosevelt said of his father, “He was the best man I ever knew. He combined strength and courage with gentleness, tenderness and great unselfishness. He would not tolerate in us children selfishness or cruelty, idleness, cowardice or untruthfulness.”