Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, Nature Quotes, Iron Quotes

We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil and the gas are exhausted.

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When she (my mother) passed away, I kind of understood the commitment that she made to make sure that I could stay in skating. And I wanted to live up to whatever I could. Not so much win everything, but just to be the best that I could possibly be, to honor her memory and everything she went through to make sure that I was given the opportunities to be the best that I can be. Not to be a world champion or an Olympic gold medalist, but to be the best that I could be. And that was the most important thing that ever happened in my career.

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Performance should be made square with promise.

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Get action. Do things; be sane; don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.

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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 public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on conditions that seem good at the moment should be subject to revision when changed conditions demand.

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An Airedale can do anything any other dog can do and then whip the other dog if he has to.

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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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Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.

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The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.

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No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.

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There should be at least ten times the number of rifles in the country as there are now.

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War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.

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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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Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

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The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

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We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.

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Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State or the Army, or Navy should not desire to have very strong and positive people under him.

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We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.

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It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally.

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