It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTIf you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
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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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.
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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
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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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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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The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
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Conservation means development as much as it does protection.
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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
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When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
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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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