 The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name. |
| A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. |
| Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. |
| Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor. |
| The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. |
| No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort. |
| It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize. |
| When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. |
| Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace. |
| Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. |
| 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. |
| If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. |
| The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. |
| It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. |
| Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. |
| Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. |
| Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. |
| Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. |
| 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. |
