“The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.”

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.

Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.

All the resources we need are in the mind.

No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.

When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

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.

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.

There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of … permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Conservation must become before recreation.

Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.