Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation. Therefore it behooves us to do our best to see that the standard of the average citizen is kept high; and the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very much higher.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation - they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness.

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