I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more.
More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle.
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work must no longer be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits.
The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.
Not trying is the surest way of achieving nothing at all.
There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.
I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.
Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers.
From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.
The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.
I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.
Don’t spread patriotism too thin.
I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.
A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.
Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.
A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor.
The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.
It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he is morally stronger, but that he is intellectually weaker. He is not more virtuous. He is simply more foolish.
Argument weak; speak loudly!