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This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
Category: America Author: Theodore Roosevelt
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The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
Category: Boldness Author: Theodore Roosevelt
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A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Category: College Author: Theodore Roosevelt
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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.
Category: Environment Author: Theodore Roosevelt
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No man is above the law and no man below it.
Category: Human Rights Author: Theodore Roosevelt
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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Category: Leadership Author: Theodore Roosevelt
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It is well that you should celebrate your Arbor Day thoughtfully, for within your lifetime the nation's need of trees will become serious. We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted.
Category: Trees Author: Theodore Roosevelt
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Category: Wise Words Author: Theodore Roosevelt
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