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I do not dislike but I certainly have no especial respect or admiration for and no trust in, the typical big moneyed men of my country. I do not regard them as furnishing sound opinion as respects either foreign or domestic business.

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The farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who, having enabled the land to support himself and to provide for the education of his children, leaves it to them a little better than he found it himself.

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The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.

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The establishment of the National Park Service is justified by considerations of good administration, of the value of natural beauty as a National asset, and of the effectiveness of outdoor life and recreation in the production of good citizenship.

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In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.

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It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood.

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It is not the critic who counts

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It is time for us now as a nation to exercise the same reasonable foresight in dealing with our great natural resources that would be shown by any prudent man in conserving and widely using the property which contains the assurance of well-being for himself and his children.

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Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

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Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.

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The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have called into being. There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done.

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A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.

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

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

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The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt

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In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

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All the resources we need are in the mind.

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Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

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In other words, character is far more important than intellect to the race as to the individual. We need intellect, and there is no reason why we should not have it together with character; but if we must choose between the two we choose character without a moment's hesitation.

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Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.

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