I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control.

In a crisis, the man worth his salt is the man who meets the needs of the situation in whatever way is necessary.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and reckless assaults on character, whether on the stump or in newspaper, magazine, or book, create a morbid and vicious public sentiment, and at the same time act as a profound deterrent to able men of normal sensitiveness and tend to prevent them from entering the public service at any price.

We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.

It's not the critic that counts.

There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. 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. Conservation means development as much as it does protection.