Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.
The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough.
Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.
A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler.
Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation – they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness.
A leader is an average, everyday person who is highly motivated.
I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.
Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.
There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.
To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!
I have had a great time as president.
What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.
All that the law can do is to shape things so that no injustice shall be done by one to the other, and that each man shall be given the first chance to show the stuff that is in him.
Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.
Nothing is gained by debate on non-debatable subjects.
Property belongs to man and not man to property.
The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law.
There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock market. One method is just pernicious to the body politic as the other kind.
We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.
The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.