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.

It is time for us now as a nation to exercise the same reasonable foresight in dealing with our great natural resources that would be shown by any prudent man in conserving and widely using the property which contains the assurance of well-being for himself and his children.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

... 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.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital.