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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.
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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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.
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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.
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The establishment of the National Park Service is justified by considerations of good administration, of the value of natural beauty as a National asset, and of the effectiveness of outdoor life and recreation in the production of good citizenship.
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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.
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A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor.
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The farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who, having enabled the land to support himself and to provide for the education of his children, leaves it to them a little better than he found it himself.
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The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.
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My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.
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... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it ... the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense.
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Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
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In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character.
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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
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It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
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In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
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Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.
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McKinley shows all the background of a chocolate eclair.
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Yes, my friend, and if you will steal for me then you will steal from me.
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I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait.
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Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.
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