"A good Navy is not a provocation to war, it is the surest guaranty of peace."
"A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guarantee of peace."
"Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk, but we must act and act big."
"A man who is good enough to shed blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards."
"To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperi..."
"The Nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets, which it turns over to the next generation increased and not impaired in value."
"It is your own interest and the interest of all the country to keep this great wonder of nature as it is now."
"True national greatness has in all ages and in all countries throughout the world been based upon waterborne commerce."
"The nation behaves well if it treats its natural resources as assets, which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value."
"essential democracy . . . the preservation of the scenery, of the forests . . . and the wilderness game for the people as a whole instead of leaving the enjoyment thereof to be confined to the very ri..."
"national parks are part of our essential democracy."
"There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country."