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.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThe 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.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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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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Comparison is the thief of joy.
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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
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The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
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A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
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There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.
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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
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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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Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.
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No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
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A 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.
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Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
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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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Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
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