Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
“I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.”
“They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.”