The Federal Government should seriously devote itself to this task, realizing that utilization of waterways and water-power, forestry, irrigation, and the reclamation of lands threatened with overflow, are all interdependent parts of the same problem.
Roosevelt stresses the interconnectedness of various environmental management efforts, including waterways and irrigation, as essential for national progress.
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
the fate of the leader for the time being is of little consequence, but the cause itself must in the end triumph, for its triumph is essential to the well-being of the American people.
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