I want more runs in baseball itself. When you were raised on a sandlot, where the scores ran twenty-three to sixty-one, you yearn for something more than a five to two score. You know as well as I do that the excitement, temperature and decibels of any big game today rise instantly when there is someone on base. It reaches ecstasy when somebody makes a run.

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

[Professional engineers] must for years abandon their white collars except for Sunday.

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade.