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We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and great plains States will take the lead in the preservation and right use of forests, in securing the

We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and great plains States will take the lead in the preservation and right use of forests, in securing the right use of waters, and in seeing that our land policy is not twisted from its original purpose, but is perpetuated by amendment, by change when such change is necessary in the life of that purpose, the purpose being to turn the public domain into farms each to be the property of the man who actually tills it and makes his home in it.

Theodore Roosevelt
Home, Men, Land

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.

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

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.

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

Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs.

Theodore Roosevelt
Men, Profession, Every Man

We want the active and zealous help of every man far-sighted enough to realize the importance from the standpoint of the nation's welfare in the future of preserving the forests.

Theodore Roosevelt
Men, Zealous, Want
Theodore Roosevelt (1970). “Presidential Addresses and State Papers of Theodore Roosevelt ...: With Portrait Frontispiece ...”

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.

Theodore Roosevelt
Science, Games, Fields
Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation. Therefore it behooves us to do our best to see that the standard of the average citizen is kept high; and the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very much higher.

Theodore Roosevelt
Leadership, Greatness, Average
Citizenship in a Republic - The Man in the Arena, delivered 23 April 1910, Le Sorbonne, University of Paris

It is time for us now as a nation to exercise the same reasonable foresight in dealing with our great natural resources that would be shown by any prudent man in conserving and widely using the property which contains the assurance of well-being for himself and his children.

Theodore Roosevelt
Children, Exercise, Men
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.74, Cornell University Press

It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.

Theodore Roosevelt
Goal, May, Reaching
Theodore Roosevelt (1899). “The Rough Riders: An Autobiography”, p.592, Library of America

It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone.

Theodore Roosevelt
Mean, Men, Mind
Jacob Abbott, Flavius Vegetus Romanus, Duke of Wellington, John S. C. Abbott, Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Strategy Six Pack 2”, p.298, Lulu.com

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

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”

After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both.

Theodore Roosevelt
Death, War, Ridiculous
Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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

It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally.

Theodore Roosevelt
Thinking, Land, History

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

Theodore Roosevelt
Beauty, Girl, Sweet

Don't spread patriotism too thin.

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

No triumph of peace can equal the armed triumph of war.

Theodore Roosevelt
Peace, War, Triumph
Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

My hat is in the ring.

Theodore Roosevelt
Hats, Rings, Zeal
Newspaper interview, 21 Feb. 1912

If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln.

Theodore Roosevelt
Abraham, Company, Ifs

There are some timid souls that will never know victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt
Perseverance, Soul, Victory

No President has ever enjoyed himself as much as I?

Theodore Roosevelt
Presidential, President, Enjoyed

The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a man whose wrong-headedness and distorted way of looking at things produced, or helped to produce, such incalculable evil; there is a wide political applicability in the remark attributed to a famous Texan, to the effect that he might, in the end, pardon a man who shot him on purpose, but that he would surely never forgive one who did so accidentally.

Theodore Roosevelt
Men, Evil, Political
Theodore Roosevelt (1899). “Thomas H. Benton”

Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies.

Theodore Roosevelt
Men, Good Man, Quality

The important thing is this: that, under such government recognition as we may give to that which is beneficent and wholesome in large business organizations, we shall be most vigilant never to allow them to crystallize into a condition which shall make private initiative difficult. It is of the utmost importance that in the future we shall keep the broad path of opportunity just as open and easy for our children as it was for our fathers during the period which has been the glory of America's industrial history.

Theodore Roosevelt
Children, Father, Opportunity