From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers and kinfolk - I felt a great admiration for men who were fearless and who could hold their own in the world. And I had a great desire to be like them.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.

The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.

In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.