Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr.was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. As a leader of the Republican Party during this time, he became a driving force for the Progressive Era in the United States in the early 20th century...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth27 October 1858
CountryUnited States of America
effectiveness national-parks administration
The establishment of the National Park Service is justified by considerations of good administration, of the value of natural beauty as a National asset, and of the effectiveness of outdoor life and recreation in the production of good citizenship.
country animal reality
In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wild life, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination.
running work-ethic risk
Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
wisdom memories struggle
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
lying asking wilderness
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.
freedom mean past
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
strength peace thorough-knowledge
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
mean envy hatred
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
heart thinking political
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
courage badass military
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
power humanity purpose
Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.
patriotic equality men
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
men rivers age
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
marine men records
...let men express the intense admiration, which I share with all other Americans, of the record made by the Marines.