The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
Children are our most valuable natural resource.
A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
All men are equal before fish.
With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
No public man can be just a little crooked.
When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.
The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.
Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.
While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States - that is, prosperity.
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger.
Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community - not from governmental restraints.
Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.
Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.
There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer - or maybe president.
Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.
Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.