“There has always been opposition to these types of things. When Theodore Roosevelt declared the Grand Canyon as a national monument [it later was made a national park], my family was among the objectors. Now everybody claims on behalf of their ancestors that they encouraged it. These are places of enormous and enduring value.”
Bruce Babbitt
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“There is no secret here when he stood in the Roosevelt Room and said 'I never had sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky,' ... He knew when he said that ... that he was misleading the people who were listening to him.”
Charles Ruff
“You must do the thing you think you cannot do”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”
“No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.”
Winston Churchill
“Speak softly and carry a big stick, and you will go far.”
Teddy Roosevelt
