Theodore Roosevelt Quotes And Sayings

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“Sometimes we vary our diet with fish – wall-eyed pike, ugly slimy catfish, and other uncouth finny things, looking very fit denizens of the mud-choked water…”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Spring would not be spring without bird songs, any more than it would be spring without buds and flowers, and I only wish that besides protecting the songsters, the birds of the grove, the orchard, the garden and the meadow, we could also protect the birds of the sea-shore and of the wilderness.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“The American people abhor a vacuum.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“The bulk of government is not legislation but administration. “Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others.”"
– Theodore Roosevelt

“The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight. ”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“The government is us; we are the government, you and I.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“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.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“The men and women who have the right ideals… are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“The object of government is the welfare of the people. “Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us”.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“The river flows in long sigmoid curves through an alluvial valley of no great width. The amount of this alluvial land enclosed by a single bend is called a bottom, which may be either covered with cotton-wood trees or else be simply a great grass meadow. From the edges of the valley the land rises abruptly in steep high buttes whose crests are sharp and jagged. This broken country extends back from the river for many miles, and has been called always, by Indians, French voyageurs, and American trappers alike, the Bad Lands”…”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“The story-high house of hewn logs is clean and neat, with many rooms, so that one can be alone if one wishes to.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“The worst of all fears is the fear of living.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man’s heart and soul, the man’s worth and actions, determine his standing.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy, and its charm.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

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