Theodore Roosevelt Quotes - Page 30

• A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Woods, Forests, Factories

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.

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  Country, Children, Cities

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Opportunity, Men, History

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

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• McKinley shows all the background of a chocolate eclair.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Government, Chocolate, Mckinley

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• The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Beauty, Girl, Sweet

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• No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Presidential, President, Presidency

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914”

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• Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.

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  Men, Should Have, Care

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• Speak softly, I'm getting my massage.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Massage, Speak, Speak Softly

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• I feel as fit as a bull moose.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Presidential, Moose, Bulls

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• Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny.

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  Civilization, Liberty, Flags

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing end of life. Happiness cannot come to any man capable of enjoying true happiness unless it comes as the sequel to duty well and honestly done. To do that duty you need to have more than one trait. From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Joy, Soul

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• The corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Light, Government, Needs

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• It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to apply to the problems of the present precisely the qualities which in other crises enabled the men of that day to meet those crises.

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  Loyalty, Past, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2004). “Letters and Speeches”

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• I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals. I abhor violence and bloodshed. I believe that war should never be resorted to when, or so long as, it is honorably possible to avoid it. I respect all men and women who from high motives and with sanity and self-respect do all they can to avert war. I advocate preparation for war in order to avert war; and I should never advocate war unless it were the only alternative to dishonor.

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  Bullying, Strong, War

  Theodore Roosevelt (1899). “The Rough Riders: An Autobiography”, p.461, Library of America

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• The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Reform, Movement, Fringe

  'Autobiography' (1913) ch. 7

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• Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

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  Patriotic, Issues, Safety

  Theodore Roosevelt (1958). “Autobiography: Condensed from the original ed., supplemented by letters, speeches, and other writings”

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• To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Football, Believe, Men

  Speech, Oyster Bay, N.Y., Oct. 1897

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• The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees.

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  Night, Voice, Tree

  Theodore Roosevelt (1983). “Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail”, p.39, U of Nebraska Press

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• The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages.

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  Games, Justice, Pioneers

  Theodore Roosevelt (1927). “The Winning of the West: An Account of the Exploration and Settlement of Our Country from the Alleghanies to the Pacific”

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• While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Achievement, Littles, Natural

  Theodore Roosevelt (2014). “Forgotten Tales and Vanished Trails”, p.192, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Nowadays the field naturalist-who is usually at all points superior to the mere closet naturalist-follows a profession as full of hazard and interest as that of the explorer or of the big-game hunter in the remote wilderness.

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  Science, Games, Fields

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his father in this respect, and will prove able to play the national game.

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  Baseball, Father, Boys

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• To the second end, we hold that minimum wage commissions should be established in the Nation and in each State to inquire into wages paid in various industries and to determine the standard which the public ought to sanction as a minimum; and we believe that, as a present installment of what we hope for in the future, there should be at once established in the Nation and its several States minimum standards for the wages of women, taking the present Massachusetts law as a basis from which to start and on which to improve.

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  Believe, Law, Massachusetts

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• 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.

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  Character, Color, Land

  Theodore Roosevelt (2000). “Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilderness Hunter”, p.108, Modern Library

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• The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world.

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  Animal, Tragedy, World

  Theodore Roosevelt (2000). “Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilderness Hunter”, p.169, Modern Library

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