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All for each, and each for all, is a good motto but only on condition that each works with might and main to so maintain himself as not to be a burden to others.

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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 one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.
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The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative
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... looked at from the standpoint of the ultimate result, there was little real difference to the Indian whether the land was taken by treaty or by war. ... No treaty could be satisfactory to the whites, no treaty served the needs of humanity and civilization, unless it gave the land to the Americans as unreservedly as any successful war.
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I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
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The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
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Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are also necessary to the full and many-sided development of a fine race.
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You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create prosperity. But you can very easily destroy prosperity by law.
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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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Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.
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The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man.
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Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others.
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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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