"A people without children would face a..." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.
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“Councils of War never fight.”
“The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have called into being. There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done.”
“When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.”
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“how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!”
“Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course; but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out loud of a great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterwards. And people will say: 'Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring' and they'll say 'Oh yes, that's one of my favorite stories.”
“Will you look back on life and say, 'I wish I had,' or 'Im glad I did'?”
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“It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.”
“Each of us, as citizens, has a role to play in creating a better world for our children”
“Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.”