Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, Nature Quotes, Mean Quotes

Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.

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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. Our nation, glorious in youth and strength, looks into the future with eager eyes and rejoices as a strong man to run a race.

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Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.

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Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

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The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

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The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

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The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

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Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

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I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.

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The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

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The supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. We pledge ourselves to work unceasingly in State and Nation for ... the protection of home life against the hazards of sickness, irregular employment and old age through the adoption of a system of social insurance adapted to American use.

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There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.

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On the whole, we think that the greatest victories are yet to be won, the greatest deeds yet to be done, and that there are yet in store for our peoples, and for the causes that we uphold, grander triumphs than have ever yet been scored. But be this as it may, we gladly agree that the one plain duty of every man is to face the future as he faces the present, regardless of what it may have in store for him, turning toward the light as he sees the light, to play his part manfully, as a man among men.

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Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.

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Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference.

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We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either.

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I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

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A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one. Once he has left office he cannot do very much; and he is a fool if he fails to realize it all and to be profoundly thankful for having had the great chance.

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