More from Theodore Roosevelt

  1. Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look…
  2. 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…
  3. Any country whose people conduct themselves well can count upon our hearty friendship. If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reas…
  4. It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better.…
  5. No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is …
  6. Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may re…
  7. Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
  8. The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as the…

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