To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.

When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.