If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.

wild flowers should be enjoyed unplucked where they grow.

Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

... looked at from the standpoint of the ultimate result, there was little real difference to the Indian whether the land was taken by treaty or by war. ... No treaty could be satisfactory to the whites, no treaty served the needs of humanity and civilization, unless it gave the land to the Americans as unreservedly as any successful war.

There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.