In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.

It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone.

The wild life of today is not ours to do with as we please. The original stock was given to us in trust for the benefit both of the present and the future. We must render an accounting of this trust to those who come after us.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.