Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind.
No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community.
The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth.
The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world.
This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American trappers alike, the Bad Lands.
Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.
Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position.
The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.
Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.
Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.
I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth.
If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.
We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster.
The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad.
Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.
There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.
To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.
The object of government is the welfare of the people.
The bulk of government is not legislation but administration.
It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood.