To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.

I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender.

It is time for us now as a nation to exercise the same reasonable foresight in dealing with our great natural resources that would be shown by any prudent man in conserving and widely using the property which contains the assurance of well-being for himself and his children.

I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action.