In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will look back to yours as the golden age, and envy those who first burst into this silent, splendid Nature.

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.

California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.