I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.

Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.

If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.

There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us... It is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it, that counts.