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

"Do what you can with what you have where you are."

"A people without children would face a hopeless future, a country without trees is almost as helpless."

"I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit."

"There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake."

"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."

"We cordially believe in the rights of property. We think that normally and in the long run the rights of humanity, coincide with the rights of property... But we feel that if in exceptional cases there is any conflict between the rights of property and the rights of man, then we must stand for the rights of man."

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

"Our fight is a fundamental fight against both of the old corrupt party machines, for both are under the dominion of the plunder league of the professional politicians who are controlled and sustained by the great beneficiaries of privilege and reaction."

"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."

"It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone."

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

"Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books."

"Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. No kind of life is worth leading if it is always an easy life. I know that your life is hard; I know that your work is hard; and hardest of all for those of you who have the highest trained consciences, and who therefore feel always how much you ought to do. I know your work is hard, and that is why I congratulate you with all my heart. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well."

"I want to see you shoot the way you shout."

"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."

"We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources."

"It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer."

"Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground."

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

"One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left of the other."