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
moving-forward moving effort
Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.
men law two-sides
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 that neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily given for the future.
land yield three
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.
inspirational relationship success
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
inspirational change positive
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
country patriotic years
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
responsibility government america
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.
action sane wherever-you-are
Get action. Do things; be sane; don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.
country truth mean
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.
wisdom responsibility kicking-back
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
graduation senior education
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
men evil good-man
No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.
wildlife habitat speak
The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will.
country men wife
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.