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

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty’.

It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books.

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Be practical as well as generous in your ideals.

Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

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.

When conservatives talk about opportunity, they mean opportunities for the rich to get richer, for the powerful to get more powerful.

There’s no way to be prepared for a conversation with someone you don’t know about something that means the world to you.

These silent Conversations that I have with myself might just end up killing me in the end.

I only give my conservation to Siri.

Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.

I don’t need that last conversation. I don’t need to understand what went wrong. Your silence explained enough.