 The American people abhor a vacuum. |
| Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big. |
| There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else. |
| It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. |
| Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body. |
| Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. Topics: Age |
| Believe you can and you're halfway there. |
| A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. |
| I am a part of everything that I have read. |
| When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not guilty." |
| When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. |
| The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead. |
| I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. |
| I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character! |
| Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. |
| No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause. |
| I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man. |
| Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. |
| The government is us; we are the government, you and I. |
| In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. |
