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
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
Do nothing to mar its grandeur ... keep it for your children, your children's children, and all who come after you, as… — 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
The important thing is this: that, under such government recognition as we may give to that which is beneficent and wholesome in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. You can only mar it. The ages have been at work… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Whatever it is, handle it so that your children's children will get the benefit of it. — 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