He was very impressed with Theodore Roosevelt, and Teddy Roosevelt used to say 'you have to get into the fray,' and that was sort of a motto of his.
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GERARD BAKER Teddy Roosevelt is still a hero among environmentalists for his conservationist policies.
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- Theodore Roosevelt,
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BRAD MCKINNISS Theodore Roosevelt said Do what you can, with what you have, right where you
are. This is great advi...
BRIAN TRACY He told me that when (Ralph Waldo) Emerson came to California, (Muir) tried to get him to come out a...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Theodore Roosevelt had drawn public attention to his attractive family in order to create a bond wit...
ROBERT DALLEK Ridicule is one of the favorite weapons of wickedness, and it is sometimes incomprehensible how good...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Right here let me make as vigorous a plea as I know how in favor of saying nothing that we do not me...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If you like wide-open spaces and a sense of the Old West and pioneering spirit, there's Theodore Roo...
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DOUGLAS BRINKLEY A man who will steal for me will steal from me." Theodore Roosevelt, dismissing on the spot one of h...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH Believe you can and you're halfway there.
TEDDY ROOSEVELT To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champa...
WINSTON CHURCHILL It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Ro...
PETER JENNINGS It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt
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DAVE FREUDENTHAL If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Ro...
JEFF GREENFIELD Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, 'N...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY I love Teddy Roosevelt... As a country, we need to think big again.
RYAN ZINKE My record shows that I have put my country first, and I follow the philosophy and traditions of Abra...
JOHN MCCAIN Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had...
W. AVERELL HARRIMAN Books are the ammunition of life.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share....
CHRIS VAN HOLLEN Roosevelt was a big collector -- stamps, models. His whole house was brimming with stuff.
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RUSSELL BAKER The United States has a long tradition of preserving the all-American outdoor experience, dating bac...
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DON WINSLOW To the conservation community, this is sacred ground. This is where the whole concept of conservatio...
LOWELL BAIER For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of...
RON FOURNIER Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.
GAYLORD NELSON Teddy Roosevelt . . . once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak l...
GERALD R. FORD The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the
well-being of society, but only if they k...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I think people really understand that clean air and clean water and not having factories dumping the...
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.
PETE DU PONT This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be t...
BRUCE BABBITT I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go t...
ALAN J. HEEGER One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely bec...
ROBERT KENNEDY I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to sp...
GERALD R. FORD By 1939, the Depression was back. Unemployment was huge. Roosevelt didn't have any quick fix. Re...
GORE VIDAL Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-...
RUSSELL BAKER I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonst...
BEN BERNANKE I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe t...
JOHN MCCAIN ...the more I see the better satisfied I am that I am an American; free born and free bred, where I ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. ...
EMANUEL CELLER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Once upon a time in the dead of winter in the Dakota Territory, Theodore Roosevelt took off in a mak...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH Edith (the future Mrs. Teddy Roosevelt) developed a lifelong devotion to drama and poetry. "I have g...
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and sta...
PETE MCCLOSKEY Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the h...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT There were so many versions out there, and he (Roosevelt) was bothered by it. He asked my father to ...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It was David McCullough's 'The Johnstown Flood' that lit my imagination as to how I migh...
ERIK LARSON But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deep...
JOHN T. FLYNN I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I belie...
JOHN MCCAIN A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers. Tacitus -Franklin D. Roosevelt.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford...
JEFF GREENFIELD There has always been opposition to these types of things. When Theodore Roosevelt declared the Gran...
BRUCE BABBITT I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to ke...
GEORGE C. MARSHALL When I was extremely young and shockingly stupid, I thought you weren't supposed to ever get angry a...
LISA KOGAN Ensconced, he (Roosevelt) lacked some of the neuroses of progressives-economic envy and race hatred ...
EDMUND MORRIS Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know....
BRUCE BABBITT We received information that he was in the Roosevelt Homes where he frequents. Our officers went the...
CAPT. LENZIE STEWART U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who...
ZIG ZIGLAR When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construct...
ALAN HUFFMAN I thought he was open to questions and free to share his thoughts and ideas ? I was very impressed w...
MICHAEL BINGHAM During the 1937 congressional election campaign, Johnson's group probably paid $5,000 to Elliott...
ROBERT DALLEK Century-old records are the closest thing we have to a time machine. To listen to the voice of Theod...
TERRY TEACHOUT You can agree or disagree with Ronald Reagan's policies, his conservatism. I was less conservative t...
DAVID GERGEN We ought to be tired of empty buildings. If they tear down Roosevelt, you'll have another big, empty...
CURTIS JOHNSON To his own children he was at once the ultimate voice of authority and, when time allowed, their mos...
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AMBROSE BIERCE Roosevelt could be very cold.
JON MEACHAM Paine suffered then,...
THOMAS A. EDISON If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The Bear and the Fox
A bear boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all animals he was...
AESOP Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.
DAVID R. GERGEN Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.
DAVID GERGEN I was very impressed with him, and I was always amazed that he wasn't well educated, ... But in his ...
FLIP WILSON I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park an...
ALLEN FUNT How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL My aspirations for this country would be on the scope of what Franklin Roosevelt brought to this cou...
DENNIS KUCINICH First lady has been a thankless position. Eleanor Roosevelt was brilliant and had strong views. She ...
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EVELYN GLENNIE She was a diamond in a quarry full of quartz.
EVELYN SKYE Imagine, and it shall be.
There are no limits.
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EVELYN SCOTT Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.
EVELYN HENDRICKSON All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
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EVELYN WAUGH ... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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EVELYN WAUGH Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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EVELYN WAUGH To understand all is to forgive all.
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EVELYN WAUGH I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old...
EVELYN WAUGH Sweetheart. That's not the way you want to remember her.
EVELYN THOMPSON Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the play...
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EVELYN UNDERHILL A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another.
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EVELYN UNDERHILL Mande un angel a vilgilar te, pero regreso, porque Angeles no vigilan otros Angeles
EVELYN JIMENEZ Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who i...
EVELYN WAUGH [A] decade of shame seemed to be ending in light and reason, [...] the Enemy was plain in view, huge...
EVELYN WAUGH Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the t...
EVELYN WAUGH In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
EVELYN WAUGH Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
EVELYN WAUGH Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiogra...
EVELYN WAUGH I put the words down and push them a bit.
EVELYN WAUGH I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
EVELYN WAUGH Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker
EVELYN WAUGH I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aes...
EVELYN WAUGH Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
EVELYN WAUGH There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed cl...
EVELYN WAUGH If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to ''a semi-official...
EVELYN WAUGH When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
EVELYN WAUGH All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty i...
EVELYN UNDERHILL You'd be surprised what poison is often hidden in the most beautiful camouflage.
EVELYN KLEBERT It (modernization) is just another jungle closing in.
EVELYN WAUGH The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, o...
EVELYN WAUGH On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get thin...
EVELYN UNDERHILL It was a small tortoise with Julia’s initials set in diamonds in the living shell, and this slight...
EVELYN WAUGH They are a very decent, generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen. Always ...
EVELYN WAUGH Here's an idea, how about you stop drinking? How about you go to rehab? Or you could just do us all ...
EVELYN SMITH You don’t want to threaten me sis.
EVELYN SMITH It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.
EVELYN WAUGH Of course, I just assumed that the world was full of solo percussionists. It was only when I studied...
EVELYN GLENNIE