While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used by American leaders for over a half-century in eulogy of those God-fearing men and women of honesty whose stamina and character and fearless assertion of rights led them to make their own way in life.

New discoveries in science and their flow of new inventions will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources; in the prevention of wasteful practices.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence.

We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.

I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.