There are many kinds of success in life worth having. It is exceedingly interestingand attractive to be a successful businessman, or railway man, or farmer, ora successful lawyer or doctor; or a writer, or a President, or a ranchman, or thecolonel of a fighting regiment, or to kill grizzly bears and lions. But for unflagginginterest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well,certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importanceby comparison.

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

The important thing is this: that, under such government recognition as we may give to that which is beneficent and wholesome in large business organizations, we shall be most vigilant never to allow them to crystallize into a condition which shall make private initiative difficult. It is of the utmost importance that in the future we shall keep the broad path of opportunity just as open and easy for our children as it was for our fathers during the period which has been the glory of America's industrial history...

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.

The farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who, having enabled the land to support himself and to provide for the education of his children, leaves it to them a little better than he found it himself.

Every child has inside him an aching void for excitement and if we don't fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and good for him, he will fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and which isn't good for him.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.