Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing – and they cannot pray all the time!
The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.
The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources; in the prevention of wasteful practices.
No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each purple gorge is reflected with a vividness that rivals the original.
Fishing is the chance to wash one’s soul with pure air. It brings meekness and inspiration, reduces our egoism, soothes our troubles and shames our wickedness. It is discipline in the equality of men – for all men are equal before fish.
The gods do not deduct from man’s allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he is free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.
Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.
The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.
Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.
The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will become better customers.
It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them will come centuries of further greatness to our country.
Wisdom often consists of knowing what to do next.
Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.
All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.
The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
Children add to the wonder of being alive.
Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces.
It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live.