I’m as strong as a bull moose and you can use me to the limit.
We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.
The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation.
It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.
When money comes in at the gate, sport flies out at the window.
No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.
A just war is in the long run far better for a man’s soul than the most prosperous peace.
Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf of wickedness on the other, and it helps not to have avoided one gulf if you fall into the other.
War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.
The wild life of today is not ours to do with as we please. The original stock was given to us in trust for the benefit both of the present and the future. We must render an accounting of this trust to those who come after us.
The country’s honor must be upheld at home and abroad.
The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens shall have a square deal.
We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action...
The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.
Let us live in the harness, striving mightily.
We here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men.
We have room but for one Language here and that is the English Language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans of American nationality and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house.
Even in ordinary times there are very few of us who do not see the problems of life as through a glass, darkly; and when the glass is clouded by the murk of furious popular passion, the vision of the best and the bravest is dimmed.
We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.