Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect, and that any man who is able glibly to answer every question as to how to deal with the evils of the body politic is at best a foolish visionary and at worst an evil-minded quack.

The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt

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.

The country's honor must be upheld at home and abroad.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.