No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.

The stop-watch of history is running. The race is on . . .

As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.

The Federal Government has a responsibility to manage wisely those public lands and forests under its jurisdiction necessary in the interest of the public as a whole. ... In the utilization of these lands, the people are entitled to expect that their timber, minerals, streams and water supply, wildlife and recreational values should be safeguarded, improved and made available not only for this but for future generations.