Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value. Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

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.

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