Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, Lakes Quotes, Race Quotes

Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are also necessary to the full and many-sided development of a fine race.

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We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage.

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Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law. A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

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I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait.

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While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.

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I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.

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All constitutions, those of the States no less than that of the nation, are designed, and must be interpreted and administered so as to fit human rights.

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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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The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

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The Cubists are entitled to the serious attention of all who find enjoyment in the colored puzzle pictures of the Sunday newspapers.

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There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value. Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

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The name Roosevelt has this legendary force in our country at this time.

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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

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If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.

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We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.

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The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

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By acting as if I was not afraid, I gradually ceased to be afraid.

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The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.

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I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more.

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Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character not only such qualities as honesty and truthfulness, but courage, perseverance and self-reliance.

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