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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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If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay.

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

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The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.

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A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

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The Constitution guarantees protection to property, and we must make that promise good. But it does not give the right of suffrage to any corporation. It is necessary that laws should be passed to prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes; it is still more necessary that such laws should be thoroughly enforced.

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Every child has inside him an aching void for excitement and if we don't fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and good for him, he will fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and which isn't good for him.

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The Welfare of Each of Us Is Dependent Fundamentally Upon the Welfare of All of Us

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...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

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Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

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The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

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Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation - they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness.

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We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.

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The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

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We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital.

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A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.

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We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism.

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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

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The dreams of golden glory in the future will not come true unless, high of heart and strong of hand, by our own mighty deeds we make them come true.

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We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already been destroyed, and not replaced, and other vast areas are on the verge of destruction. Yet forests, unlike mines, can be so handled as to yield the best results of use, without exhaustion, just like grain fields.

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