The words of the Declaration of Independence, as given effect by Washington...are to be accepted as real, and not as empty phrases...that in very truth this is a government by the people themselves, that the Constitution is theirs, that the courts are theirs, that all the government agents and agencies are theirs... It is for the people themselves finally to decide all questions of public policy and to have their decision made effective...We here, in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world.

What I am to be, I am becoming.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough.

We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital.

A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books