"The men worked hard and faithfully. As a rule, in spite of the number of rough characters among them, they behaved very well. One night a few of them went on a spree, and proceeded "to paint San Antonio red." One was captured by the city authorities, and we had to leave him behind us in jail. The others we dealt with ourselves, in a way that prevented a repetition of the occurrence."

"We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he renders service."

"Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt."

"My hat's in the ring. The fight is one and I'm stripped to the buff."

"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."

"The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered."

"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."

"The worst of all fears is the fear of living."

"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."

"The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it."

"We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism."

"As regards the extraordinary prizes, the element of luck is the determining factor."

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

"To all who have known really happy family lives, that is, to all who have known or who have witnessed the greatest happiness which there can be on this earth, it is hardly necessary to say that the highest idea of the family is attainable only where the father and mother stand to each other as lovers and friends. In these homes the children are bound to father and mother by ties of love, respect, and obedience, which are simply strengthened by the fact that they are treated as reasonable beings with rights of their own, and that the rule of the household is changed to suit the changing years, as childhood passes into manhood and womanhood."

"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."

"We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time."

"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."

"The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books."

"Pray not for lighter burdens but for stronger backs."

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

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else."

"We demand that big business give people a square deal in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honesdy endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal."

"The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it rests with the Supreme Court to decide what they have really thought."

"When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on."

"To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

"The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others."

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

"I feel like a Bull Moose."

"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."

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft!"

"Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing."

"Indeed, it is a sign of marked political weakness in anycommonwealth if the people tend to be carried away by mere oratory, if theytend to value words in and for themselves, as divorced from the deeds for whichthey are supposed to stand. The phrase-maker, the phrase-monger, the readytalker, however great his power, whose speech does not make for courage,sobriety, and right understanding, is simply a noxious element in the bodypolitic, and it speaks ill for the public if he has influence over them. To admirethe gift of oratory without regard to the moral quality behind the gift is to dowrong to the republic."

"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."

"The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

"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."

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

"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."

"There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid."

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

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

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