I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.

The public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on conditions that seem good at the moment should be subject to revision when changed conditions demand.

If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

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

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.