We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our country, we have faith to believe, is only at the beginning of its growth. Unless the forests of the United States… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We want the active and zealous help of every man far-sighted enough to realize the importance from the standpoint of the nation's… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If there is any one duty which more than another we owe it to our children and our children's children to perform… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nothing should be permitted to stand in the way of the preservation of the forests, and it is criminal to permit individuals… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless; forests which are so used… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
