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Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things.

Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things.

Theodore Roosevelt
Beautiful, Country, Men
Theodore Roosevelt (2010). “The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places”, p.358, Cambria Press

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Peace, Humanity
Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.79, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Optimism, Excess
Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

Our country, we have faith to believe, is only at the beginning of its growth. Unless the forests of the United States can be made ready to meet the vast demands which this growth will inevitably bring, commercial disaster, that means disaster to the whole country, is inevitable.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Believe, Mean
Theodore Roosevelt (1970). “Presidential Addresses and State Papers of Theodore Roosevelt: With Portrait Frontispiece”

A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Children, Future

After nightfall the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams like running quicksilver, and the moonbeams play over the grassy stretches of the plateaus...The Bad Lands seem to be stranger and wilder than ever, the silvery rays turning the country into a kind of grim fairyland.

Theodore Roosevelt
Running, Country, Land

The immigrant must not be allowed to drift or to be put at the mercy of the exploiter. Our object is not to imitate one of the older racial types, but to maintain a new American type and then to secure loyalty to this type. We cannot secure such loyalty unless we make this a country where men shall feel that they have justice and also where they shall feel that they are required to perform the duties imposed upon them.

Theodore Roosevelt
Loyalty, Country, Men
Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.373, Cosimo, Inc.

The name Roosevelt has this legendary force in our country at this time.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Time, Names

Nothing should be permitted to stand in the way of the preservation of the forests, and it is criminal to permit individuals to purchase a little gain for themselves through the destruction of forests when this destruction is fatal to the well-being of the whole country in the future.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Criminals, Littles
Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Presidential addresses and state papers”

There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Issues, Conservative
Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous marriage, will become a needless and obsolete virtue; but just at present the man who loves other countries as much as he does his own is quite as noxious a member of society as the man who loves other women as much as he loves his wife. Love of country is an elemental virtue, like love of home.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Home, Men
Theodore Roosevelt (1897). “American ideals and other essays, social and political”

A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless; forests which are so used that they cannot renew themselves will soon vanish, and with them all their benefits. A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood and at the same time a reservoir of water. When you help to preserve our forests or plant new ones you are acting the part of good citizens.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Children, People

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Diversity

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

If there is one thing for which we stand in this country, it is for complete religious freedom, and it is an emphatic negation of this right to cross-examine a man on his religion before being willing to support him for office.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Religious, Men
Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

The country's honor must be upheld at home and abroad.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Home, Honor

A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Revolution, Sometimes
Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.65, Courier Corporation

The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Courage, Lying

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.

Theodore Roosevelt
Country, Land, Rivers

In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Theodore Roosevelt
Life, Country, Character
Speech to Hamilton Club, Chicago, Ill., 10 Apr. 1899