"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life."

"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer."

"Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body."

"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."

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not guilty.""

"When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."

"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."

"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."

"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause."

"We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all."

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

"The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants."

"The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice."

"With self-discipline most anything is possible."

"Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big."

"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life."

"The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency."

"Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering."

"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."

"Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures."

"The government is us; we are the government, you and I."

"The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name."

"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."

"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."

"It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws."

"A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues."

"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."

"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards."

"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!"

"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience."

"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."

"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind."

"I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also."

"The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits."

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

"No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse."

"The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead."

"The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."

"I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head."

"Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe."

"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."

"Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past."

"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering."

"No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort."

"I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being."

"I am a part of everything that I have read."

"Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved."