If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.

Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.

The American people abhor a vacuum.

Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.