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
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
The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The nation behaves well if it treats its natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is time for us now as a nation to exercise the same reasonable foresight in dealing with our great natural resources… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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
Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for… — 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 supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. We… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of… — 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 conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I do not intend that our natural resources shall be exploited by the few against the interests of the many. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of… — 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
