The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of that which is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

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.

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.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.