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.
Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.
The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough.
Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.
A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler.
Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation – they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness.
A leader is an average, everyday person who is highly motivated.
I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.
Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.
There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.
To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!