“No man is above the law, and no man is below it.”
“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
“The government is us; we are the government, you and I.”
“The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.”
“It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.”
“Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.”
“I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.”
“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.”
“There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the ''money touch,'' but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.”
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.”
“The American people abhor a vacuum.”
“It is better to be faithful than famous.”
“All the resources we need are in the mind”
“I want to see you shoot the way you shout.”
“Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.”
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
“Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.”
“Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.”
“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything”
“No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.”
“My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.”
“Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.”
“Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.”
“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
“I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.”
“Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.”
“Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.”
“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.”
“I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.”