Theodore Roosevelt

I am a man of simple tastes, easily satisfied with the best.

There can be no fifty-fifty in marriage. There must be a hundred percent on both sides.

The things that count are not the things that are seen, but the things that are unseen.

We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes anarchy.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the Canal does also.

The greatest good we can do our country is to make it a better place to live in.

It is not what we have, but what we do with what we have, that determines our character.

The first requisite of a good citizen in our republic is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

The American wilderness has been the nursery of our national life.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.

In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.

The preservation of the forests, and of game on the farms and ranges, are matters of vital importance to the whole country.

There can be no greater issue than that of civilization and human happiness, and of the whole future of our race, than the preservation of the natural resources of our country.

We have fallen heirs to the most glorious heritage a people ever received, and each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.

The fight for the conservation of natural resources is a fight for the conservation of civilization.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic.