Theodore Roosevelt Quotes - Page 31

• I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural history, and my ambition was to be a scientific man of the Audubon, or Wilson, or Baird, or Coues type-a man like Hart Merriam, or Frank Chapman, or Hornaday, to-day.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Ambition, Science, College

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Mother went off for three days to New York and Mame and Quentin took instant advantage of her absence to fall sick. Quentin's sickness was surely due to a riot in candy and ice-cream with chocolate sauce.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mother, New York, Fall

  Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph Bishop (2010). “Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children”, p.92, Applewood Books

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• I have had a great time as president.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  President, Had A Great Time, Great Times

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

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• Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Cancer, Cutting

  Theodore Roosevelt, Eugene Thwing (1919). “Newer Roosevelt messages: speeches, letters and magazine articles dealing with the war, before and after, and other vital topics”

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• We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already been destroyed, and not replaced, and other vast areas are on the verge of destruction. Yet forests, unlike mines, can be so handled as to yield the best results of use, without exhaustion, just like grain fields.

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  Science, Land, Yield

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.

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  Art, Science, Branches

  Theodore Roosevelt, H. W. Brands (2001). “African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-naturalist”, p.21, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.

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  Use, Fundamentals, Politics

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.30, Taylor Trade Publications

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• This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American trappers alike, the Bad Lands.

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  Country, Land, Rivers

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• A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal; the conditions under which they have lived and have done their work have been better than in any similar work ever undertaken in the tropics; they have all felt an eager pride in their work; and they have made not only America but the whole world their debtors by what they have accomplished.

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  Pride, Men, America

  Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography”, p.495, Open Road Media

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• No President has ever enjoyed himself as much as I?

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Presidential, President, Enjoyed

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• Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

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  Mean, Presidential, Development

  Theodore Roosevelt (2014). “Selected Speeches and Writings of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.119, Vintage

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• My experience...convinced me that tea was better than brandy, and during the last six months in Afica I took no brandy, even when sick taking tea instead.

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  Sick, Tea, Six Months

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• A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or small boys, or tortures animals.

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  Girl, Animal, Boys

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.19, Taylor Trade Publications

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• In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world.

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  Natural Wonders, World, Arizona

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.128, Cornell University Press

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• The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

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  Needs, Attention, Too Much

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit!

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  Bully, Pulpit, Enjoy

  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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• If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play.

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  Nature, Children, Play

  Theodore Roosevelt (1952). “The Big Stick, 1905-1909”

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• My hat is in the ring.

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  Hats, Rings, Zeal

  Newspaper interview, 21 Feb. 1912

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• The general tendency towards an eight-hour working day has undoubtedly been healthful, and it is wise for the State to set a good example as an employer of labor, both as to the number of hours of labor exacted and as to paying a just and reasonable wage.

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  Wise, Eight, Numbers

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• A typical vice of American politics the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Issues, Vices

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• I don't think any President ever enjoyed himself more than I did. Moreover, I don't think any ex-President ever enjoyed himself more.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Thinking, President, Enjoyed

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.134, Taylor Trade Publications

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• When she (my mother) passed away, I kind of understood the commitment that she made to make sure that I could stay in skating. And I wanted to live up to whatever I could. Not so much win everything, but just to be the best that I could possibly be, to honor her memory and everything she went through to make sure that I was given the opportunities to be the best that I can be. Not to be a world champion or an Olympic gold medalist, but to be the best that I could be. And that was the most important thing that ever happened in my career.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mother, Memories, Commitment

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• A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.

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  Kings, President, Chance

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• The public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on conditions that seem good at the moment should be subject to revision when changed conditions demand.

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  Rafting, Essentials, Demand

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works: Presidential addresses and state papers, Dec. 3, 1901, June 1910, and European addresses. 8 v”

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• It's not the critic that counts.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Critics

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