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.

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Perhaps the most incapable Executive that ever filled the presidential chair...it would be difficult to imagine a man less fit to guide the state with honor and safety through the stormy times that marked the opening of the present century.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler.

The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.

There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.