Theodore Roosevelt

Behind the ostensible Government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

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.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless it is a good place for all of us to live in.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

The reactionary is always the man who holds back.

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

People don't care how much you know, they want to know how much you care.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

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.

We hurt ourselves when we hurt the animals.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and none of us would have the right to leave the next generation a heritage of debt and debt only.

The conservation of our natural resources is a most serious problem.

I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.