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

Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny.

I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals.

It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and which shall discriminate in favor of the honest and humane employer by removing the disadvantage under which he stands when compared with unscrupulous competitors who have no conscience and will do right only under fear of punishment.

Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy.

Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.

The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.

There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons; and our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children's children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred.

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

We did everything possible to keep up the spirits of the men, but it was exceedingly difficult because there was nothing for them to do.

The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth.

Risk is like fire: If controlled it will help you; if uncontrolled it will rise up and destroy you.

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

Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.

We have room in this country for but one flag, the Stars and Stripes!

Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies.

You would be much amused with the animals round the ranch.

That was a good mark in Latin, and I am pleased with your steady improvement in it.

A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives; when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them; not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk.

There is little use for the being whose tepid soul knows nothing of the great and generous emotion, of the high pride, the stern belief , the lofty enthusiasm, of the men who quell the storm and ride the thunder.