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PIECES
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President
Roosevelt, Steward
of the people
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"Far
better is it to dare mighty
things, to win glorious
triumphs, even
though checkered
by failure, than to take rank
with those poor spirits,
who neither win
much nor lose much, because they
live in the gray twighlight
that knows not
victory nor defeat."
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President
Roosevelt joined the Republican
Party in 1880 and in
1901 became the 26th
President of the United
States of America.
Roosevelt encouraged the
federal government's
acquisition and management
of public lands. He wanted
to use this government
acquisition to prevent the
exploitation of the
nation's natural resources
by industry and the
wealthy for industrial or
private gain and to ensure
a more equal and
democratic distribution of
the public lands and its
resources.
Roosevelt said: "The
rights of the public to
the natural resources
outweigh private rights,
and must be given first
consideration."
Roosevelt was of opinion
that public lands and
natural resources belong
to the public, and that
they do not exist for the
unrestricted use of
private industry.
Roosevelt said: "It
is entirely in our power,
as a nation, to preserve
large tracts of
wilderness, as playgrounds
for rich and poor alike,
and to preserve the game.
But, this end can
only be achieved by wise
laws and by a resolute
enforcement of the laws.
Lack of such
legislation and
administration will result
in harm to all of us, but
most of all, harm to the
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THE
DEFINITION OF A BEACH: BY FL.
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Number: AGO
87-16 : Date: February 18, 1987
At 10 C.J.S. p.
217, it is stated that in common
parlance the word "beach"
has been defined as a "strip
of land above the usual
high-water line, more or less
well defined by natural
boundary, or in the rear by a
sea wall, providing a convenient
and safe access to the water
for bathing or for sun baths either
before or after going into the
water; the coast, the seashore,
the strand; the land, or lands,
washed by the sea; the sandy
shore above high-watermark; the
shore of the sea, or of a lake,
which is washed by tidewaters
and waves; the strip of shore
lying above high water."
Thus defined and understood, the
word "beach" includes
the shoreline of both fresh and
salt bodies of water.
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