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.

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.

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

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

With self-discipline, all things are possible

It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to apply to the problems of the present precisely the qualities which in other crises enabled the men of that day to meet those crises.

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