A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.

Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.

For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know

The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough.

I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action.

We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.