"The name Roosevelt has this legendary force..." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

“Our country, we have faith to believe, is only at the beginning of its growth. Unless the forests of the United States can be made ready to meet the vast demands which this growth will inevitably bring, commercial disaster, that means disaster to the whole country, is inevitable.”

“Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.”

“Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal.”

“I think I did in the sense that there's a whole generation coming up behind us that was engaged, inspired, worked for change during the course of my presidency, saw what was possible. And that generation, it's coming.”

“Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.”

“Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.”

“Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.”

“Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.”

“No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.”