"I have always been a believer in the doctrine that the nation which expects to be great must be able to fight."

"There is no limit to the good a man can do if he doesn't care who gets the credit."

"I do not want to be a professional politician."

"I am a man of the West, and I have lived among the cowboys and the hunters and the miners and the ranchmen, and I know them, and I know their ways."

"I have always been a man who has believed in the importance of outdoor life, and I have always been a man who has believed in the importance of physical fitness."