The immigrant must not be allowed to drift or to be put at the mercy of the exploiter. Our object is not to imitate one of the older racial types, but to maintain a new American type and then to secure loyalty to this type. We cannot secure such loyalty unless we make this a country where men shall feel that they have justice and also where they shall feel that they are required to perform the duties imposed upon them.
Theodore RooseveltNothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficultyโฆ I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
Theodore RooseveltTo waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.
Theodore RooseveltThe corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive.
Theodore RooseveltA healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives; when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them; not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk.
Theodore Roosevelt