Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he’s gone.
Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time.
We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.
For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.
We have room in this country for but one flag, the Stars and Stripes!
A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.
What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.
Don’t foul, don’t flinch-hit the line hard.
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
No, I’m not a good shot, but I shoot often.
Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.
Whatever it is, handle it so that your children’s children will get the benefit of it.
I do not believe there was ever a life more attractive than life on a cattle farm.
Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.