In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.

The public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on conditions that seem good at the moment should be subject to revision when changed conditions demand.

If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or a sense of superfluous aloofness from the world of real men who do the world's real work, then it has harmed that individual.