A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.

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

The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

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