The White House is a bully pulpit.

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.

What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

The president is that invisible force that makes a school of fish suddenly change direction, so that everyone 'ohhs' and 'ahhs' at the glimmering mass and only later wonders what makes them move in that way. I read somewhere-_Harper's_, I'm fairly certain-that the fish are only avoiding pockets of extra cold water.

One of the fundamental necessities in a representative government such as ours is to make certain that the men to whom the people delegate their power shall serve the people by whom they are elected, and not the special interests. I believe that every national officer, elected or appointed, should be forbidden to perform any service or receive any compensation, directly or indirectly, from interstate corporations; and a similar provision could not fail to be useful within the States.

It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it.