"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time."

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."

"There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering."

"The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight."

"When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all."

"Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike."

"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."

"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young."

"The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats."

"Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster."

"Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace."

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."

"It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize."

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public."

"Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive."

"Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement."

"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."

"No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it."

"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."

"I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man."

"The American people abhor a vacuum."

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

"The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly."

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives."

"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."

"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."

"Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it."