The frontier of America is on the Rhine.

There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fundamental idea behind the parks is native. It is, in brief, that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us. The parks stand as the outward symbal of the great human principle.

The first twelve years are the hardest.

Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!

For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new uses of corporations, banks and securities, new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital - all undreamed of by the Fathers - the whole structure of modern life was impressed into this royal service.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.