They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes and welded the tanks. Riveted the ships and rolled the shells.

The handling of our forests as a continuous, renewable resource means permanent employment and stability to our country life. The forests are also needed for mitigating extreme climatic fluctuations, holding the soil on the slopes, retaining the moisture in the ground, and controlling the equable flow of water in our streams.

Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom.

Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

It has always seemed to me that the best symbol of common sense was a bridge.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.