I must be wanting to be President. Every young man does. But I won't let myself think of it; I must not, because if I do, I will begin to work for it; I'll be careful, calculating, cautious in word and act, and so - I'll beat myself.

Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile.

I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.

It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt

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.