Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Leave it [The Grand Canyon] as it is. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it …. Keep it for your children, your children’s children, and all who come after you, as one of the sights which every American … should see.

May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.

The World is not ours to keep. We hold it in trust for future generations.

The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.

I remember as a ranger the first time I stood alone on Inspiration Point over at Canyon Station looking out over this beautiful land. I thought to myself how lucky I was that my parents' and grandparents' generation had the vision and the determination to save it for us. Now it is our turn to make our own gift outright to those who will come after us, 15 years, 40 years, 100 years from now. I want to be as faithful to my grandchildren's generation as Old Faithful has been to ours. What better way can we add a new dimension to our third century of freedom?

What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives?

I don't believe that anyone can see the Grand Canyon area for themselves and not know that we have to do everything we can to protect it for future generations.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.

I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.

I can't think of anything more important than the environment we leave to our children and our children's children.

Fulfilling the vision of the Irvine Ranch master plan has been a lifetime dedication and lifetime passion, and I am hopeful the heritage of our Irvine stewardship will live on in many new ways.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it.

Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights which they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.

Land is not something you inherit from your parents. It is something you borrow from your children.

Canada is our inheritance from our parents and our legacy to our children.

Leadership is preserving the nation's ideals.

The eyes of all America are upon us; as we play our part … posterity will bless or curse us.

Our children will be as wise as we are and will establish in the fullness of time those things not yet ripe for establishment

It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.

The only legacy I seek is the one that any grandparent seeks - that is, to hand off our nation... our fields and our farms to the next generation in better shape than we found it.

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.