Rightful Heritage Quotes

“With soldiers coming home, trained to shoot guns, there was a marked increase in hunting and fishing. Many veterans wanted to take a well-earned month or two for recreation. In 1945, eight million hunting licenses were issued, an increase of one million licenses since the start of the war.”
― Douglas Brinkley, Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America

“Within two years, white-tailed deer, wild turkeys, and wood ducks all started to make startling comebacks.”
― Douglas Brinkley, Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America

“Conservation is a basis of permanent peace”
― Douglas Brinkley, Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America – A New York Times Bestselling History of Presidential Conservation

“When a national park is established, the insistent demand is to build roads everywhere, to build broad trails, to build air fields, to make it possible for everybody to...go everywhere without effort," Ickes lamented. "These last two words are what cause the trouble. It is characteristic of the American people that they want everything to be attainable without effort.”
― Douglas Brinkley, Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America – A New York Times Bestselling History of Presidential Conservation

“Because of his aristocratic upbringing and friendly countenance, no one yet realized he was a master at reading people.”
― Douglas Brinkley, Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America