We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTA man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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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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People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.
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No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
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The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
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The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.
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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
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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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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.
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If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
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All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.
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With self discipline most anything is possible.
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This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
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It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.
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