Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the first requisite.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

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.

The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

Arms alone can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defense - to protect from violent assault what we already have. They are only a costly insurance. They cannot add to human progress.