Fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air. It brings meekness and inspiration, reduces our egoism, soothes our troubles and shames our wickedness. It is discipline in the equality of men--for all men are equal before fish.

Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear, "On the other hand..."

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

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.

Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.

Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!

Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.