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Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.

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It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

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The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough.

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Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare

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Life is a great adventure…accept it in such a spirit.

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The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.

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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 cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity.

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The American people abhor a vacuum.

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I am a part of everything that I have read.

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When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

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A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.

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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

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What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.

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Of one man in especial, beyond anyone else, the citizens of a republic should beware, and that is of the man who appeals to them to support him on the ground that he is hostile to other citizens of the republic, that he will secure for those who elect him, in one shape or another, profit at the expense of other citizens of the republic. It makes no difference whether he appeals to class hatred or class interest, to religious or anti-religious prejudice. The man who makes such an appeal should always be presumed to make it for the sake of furthering his own interest.

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

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We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

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Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies.

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Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.

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There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter when the rocking chair in front of the fire simply demands an accompanying book.

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