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Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt
Age: 60 †
Born: 1858
Born: October 27
Died: 1919
Died: January 6
26Th U.S. President
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The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough.
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When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.
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A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.
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The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books
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I have now run up against an ugly snag, the Sunday Excise Law. It is altogether too strict, but I have no honorable alternative save to enforce it and I am enforcing it, to the furious rage of the saloon keepers, and of many good people too for which I am sorry.
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Conservation means development as much as it does protection. A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
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[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy and really good books on these subjects are as enthralling as any fiction ever written in prose or verse.
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