For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.
No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with the gratitude to the Giver of good who has blessed us.
I have always said I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota.
Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth.
To sit home, read one’s favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men’s doing.
It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.
The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.
With great victory comes great sacrifice.
The great man is always the man of mighty effort.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
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.