To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.
Theodore RooseveltTags: environment conservation
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore RooseveltTags: fear wisdom risk timidity decisiveness inaction just-do-it
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore RooseveltTags: dissent freedom-of-speech truth-telling
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Theodore RooseveltTags: wisdom politics advice usa immigration americanism english-as-a-second-language
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Theodore RooseveltTags: productivity competence busy-learning job-doing
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
Theodore RooseveltTags: progress-doing-critic
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Theodore RooseveltTags: moral-courage character
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Theodore RooseveltTags: reading
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Theodore RooseveltTags: education morality character
Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
Theodore RooseveltTags: morality
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