Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others.
Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.
No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor afford to make powerful and unscrupulous foes, if he is himself vulnerable in his private character.
The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it. Life is a great adventure, and I want to say to you, accept it in such a spirit.
No President has ever enjoyed himself as much as I?
There should be at least ten times the number of rifles in the country as there are now.
Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.
The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare.
The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens.
The light has gone out of my life.
If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.
I feel as fit as a bull moose.
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called “weasel words.”
The White House is a bully pulpit.
Speak softly, I’m getting my massage.
Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism.
Gradually the true Mason gains experience in using these working tools and can observe subtler and subtler indications of personal flaws.
It’s not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.