I never won anything without hard labor and the exercise of my best judgment.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not guilty.’
It is always better to be an original than an imitation.
I do not dislike but I certainly have no especial respect or admiration for and no trust in, the typical big moneyed men of my country. I do not regard them as furnishing sound opinion as respects either foreign or domestic business.
It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them, but it is duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control is shown.
It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one’s sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.
The teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally impossible for us to figure to ourselves what that life would be if these teaching were removed.
Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.
Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.
He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.
Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood – the virtues that made America.
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to ‘mean’ horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.