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"I highly venerate the Masonic Institution, under the fullest persuasion that, when its principles are acknowledged and its laws and precepts obeyed, it comes nearest to the Christian religion, in its moral effects and influence, of any institution with which I am acquainted."
"Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander."
"Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don't have the strength. Industry and determination can do anything that genius and advantage can do and many things that they cannot."
"I do not believe there was ever a life more attractive than life on a cattle farm."
"Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few and the triumph in both politics and business of a sordid and selfish materialism."
"The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame."
"[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really good books on these subjects are as enthralling as any fiction ever written in prose or verse."
"Don't foul, don't flinch-hit the line hard."
"The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others."
"Whatever it is, handle it so that your children's children will get the benefit of it."
"My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff."
"Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little."
"Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us."
"It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature."
"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."
"Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace."
"The farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who, having enabled the land to support himself and to provide for the education of his children, leaves it to them a little better than he found it himself."
"We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground."
"There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains."
"There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility."