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. |