It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

The wild life of today is not ours to do with as we please. The original stock was given to us in trust for the benefit both of the present and the future. We must render an accounting of this trust to those who come after us.

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

The immigrant must not be allowed to drift or to be put at the mercy of the exploiter. Our object is not to imitate one of the older racial types, but to maintain a new American type and then to secure loyalty to this type. We cannot secure such loyalty unless we make this a country where men shall feel that they have justice and also where they shall feel that they are required to perform the duties imposed upon them.