Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

I always keep my weather eye on the opposition of my seventh house Moon to my first house Mars.

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

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.

The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.