It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
After nightfall the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
... looked at from the standpoint of the ultimate result, there was little real difference to the Indian whether the land was… — 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
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
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
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