A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people