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.

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.

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

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.

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

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.