We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.

Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!

The spiritual uplift, the goodwill, cheerfulness and optimism that accompanies every expedition to the outdoors is the peculiar spirit that our people need in times of suspicion and doubt...No other organized joy has values comparable to the outdoor experience.

If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.

Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.

You cannot extend the mastery of government over the daily life of a people without somewhere making it master of people's souls and thoughts.... Every step in that direction poisons the very roots of liberalism. It poisons political equality, free speech, free press, and equality of opportunity. It is the road not to more liberty but to less liberty.

The imperative need of this nation at all times is the leadership of Uncommon Men or Women.