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.
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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It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.
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Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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Comparison is the thief of joy.
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I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
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Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
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No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
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It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don’t know anything outside their own business.
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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
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Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.
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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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Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
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There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.
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If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
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I am a part of everything that I have read.
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Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena: whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
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When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
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Be practical as well as generous in your ideals.
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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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Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
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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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Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.
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The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly.
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