"At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies."
"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."
"It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time."
"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."
"Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily taken for th"
"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have."
"He has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair"
"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"
"The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly."
"Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws."