#conservation

“Kidd's 'Social Evolution'”

“The City in Modern Life”

“We need, in the interest of the community at large, a rigid system of game laws rigidly enforced, and it is not only admissible, but one may almost say necessary, to establish, under the control of the State, great national forest reserves, which shall also be breeding grounds and nurseries for wild game; but I should much regret to see grow up in this country a system of large private game preserves, kept for the enjoyment of the very rich. The Wilderness Hunter , p. 270”

“I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indian is the dead Indian , but I believe nine out of every ten are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. Ibid, January 1886 [ [2] ]”

“The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian . January 1886, in a campaign speech given in New York [ [1] ]”

“Our Nation, A Product of Christianity,”

“There is a curse on this house. Theodore repeating what his brother, Elliot Roosevelt, said when Theodore reached his home in New York City to find both mother and wife dying on the evening of 13 February 1884; in this same house their father had also died from stomach cancer on 9 February 1878, at the age of 46.”

“The light has gone out of my life. Entry in Roosevelt's diary, before which he put a large X, on 14 February 1884, the day in which both his mother and wife died within hours of each other.”

“McManus, a Tammany Hall politician in the New York State Assembly, about a plan to humiliate Roosevelt by tossing him in a blanket. Quoted in”

“I have not been able to think out any solution of the terrible problem offered by the presence of the Negro on this continent , but of one thing I am sure, and that is that inasmuch as he is here and can neither be killed nor driven away, the only wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man strictly on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he shows himself worthy to have . As quoted in Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880”