Theodore Roosevelt was an American statesman, politician, conservationist, naturalist and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
He was born in New York City on October 27, 1858. He died in Oyster Bay, New York on January 6, 1919.
Top 10 Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as well as in the military services by every means in our power. Thus, and not otherwise, may we be able to assist in preserving peace in the world. The first step – in the direction of preparation to avert war if possible, and to be fit for war if it should come – is to teach men to shoot!
The world would have halted had it not been for the Teutonic conquests in alien lands.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
It is true of the nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.
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.
To waster, 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.
Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.
Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people who are alive today, but the property of unknown generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.
There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country.
The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.
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