Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our house in order and begin to live within our means.
There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country.
I do not care a rap as to who gets credit for the work, provided the work is done.
Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. You can only mar it. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. What you can do is keep it for your children, your children’s children and for all who come after you.
I violate no secret when I say that one of the greatest values in Masonry is that it affords an opportunity for men of all walks of life to meet on common ground where all men are equal and have one common interest.
Power always brings with it responsibility.
The worst thing I can do is nothing.
I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.
I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.
It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don’t know anything outside their own business.
Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.
We are the heirs of the ages.
Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone.
Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat.
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.