We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.

Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

Even if security from the cradle to the grave could eliminate [all] the risks of life, it would [still] be a dead hand on the creative spirit of the American people.

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

The joys of fishing are not confined to the hours near the water.

Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.

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.