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

A good fisherman can secure many regenerative hours in winter, polishing up the rods and reels.

The future of nations cannot be frozen . . . cannot be foreseen. If we are going to accomplish anything in our time we must approach our problem in the knowledge that there is nothing rigid or immutable in human affairs. History is a story of growth, decay and change. If no provision, no allowance is made for change by peaceful means, it will come anyway - and with violence.

No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seems to limit it.

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.