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.

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.

My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have.

In other words, character is far more important than intellect to the race as to the individual. We need intellect, and there is no reason why we should not have it together with character; but if we must choose between the two we choose character without a moment's hesitation.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding

Perhaps the most incapable Executive that ever filled the presidential chair...it would be difficult to imagine a man less fit to guide the state with honor and safety through the stormy times that marked the opening of the present century.