The great man is always the man of mighty effort.
The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
We can have no ‘50-50’ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
Get action. Do things; be sane; don’t fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
An Airedale can do anything any other dog can do and then whip the other dog if he has to.
A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.
Every child has inside him an aching void for excitement and if we don’t fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and good for him, he will fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and which isn’t good for him.
No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
It may be that ‘the voice of the people is the voice of God’ in fifty one cases out of a hundred, but in the remaining forty nine it is quite as likely to be the voice of the devil, or, what is still worse, the voice of a fool.
By acting as if I was not afraid, I gradually ceased to be afraid.
No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night.
McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair.
The dreams of golden glory in the future will not come true unless, high of heart and strong of hand, by our own mighty deeds we make them come true.
The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.
Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.
No triumph of peace can equal the armed triumph of war.
Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.