The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.

A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.

The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them, but it is duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control is shown.

Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.

From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers and kinfolk - I felt a great admiration for men who were fearless and who could hold their own in the world. And I had a great desire to be like them.