Theodore Roosevelt/presidency 1901-1909

Famous quotes containing the words theodore roosevelt, theodore, roosevelt and/or presidency:

    The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
    Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)

    Where there is no vision, the people perish.
    Bible: Hebrew Proverbs, 29:18.

    President John F. Kennedy quoted this passage on the eve of his assassination in Dallas, Texas; recorded in Theodore C. Sorenson’s biography, Kennedy, Epilogue (1965)

    I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes, hills and streams and plains; the mountains over our land and nature’s wealth deep under the earth, are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people.
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)