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“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”

Theodore Roosevelt

As quoted in Stepping Stones : The Complete Bible Narratives (1941)
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“It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Chicago, IL http://www.trsite.org/content/pages/speaking-loudly (17 June 1912) <br class="br">1910s

“The government is us; we are the government, you and I.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Speech http://books.google.com/books?id=kfYEAAAAYAAJ&amp;q=%22The+government+is+us+we+are+the+government+you+and+I%22&amp;pg=PA521#v=onepage at Asheville, North Carolina (9 September 1902) <br class="br">1900s

“The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books”

Theodore Roosevelt

“We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Berkeley, CA http://www.trsite.org/content/pages/speaking-loudly (1911) <br class="br">1910s

“Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss… The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!”

Theodore Roosevelt

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.”

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“All the resources we need are in the mind.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Speech before the Colorado Live Stock Association, Denver, Colorado (August 29, 1910); in The New Nationalism (1910), p. 52; also inscribed on Cox Corridor II, a first floor House corridor, U.S. Capitol.
1910s

“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 demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Third State of the Union Address (7 December 1903)
1900s