The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life.
Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.
Do Something Now. If not you, who? If not here, where? If not now, when?
In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world.
The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.
There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind.
The Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution.
My hat’s in the ring. The fight is on and I’m stripped to the buff.
The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.
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The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph from defeat.
The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great god, that is, of helping them to help themselves.
A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or small boys, or tortures animals.
I never keep boys waiting. It’s a hard trial for a boy to wait.
Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years.
I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.
Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains...
The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.
Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State or the Army, or Navy should not desire to have very strong and positive people under him.
Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are also necessary to the full and many-sided development of a fine race.