The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.
Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference.
This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.
Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.
There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel.
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.
Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.
To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.
Honesty first; then courage; then brains – and all are indispensable.
There is no effort without error or shortcoming.
The nation behaves well if it treats natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased and not impaired in value.
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.
It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men’s lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.