 The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer. |
| 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. |
| With self-discipline most anything is possible. |
| To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public. |
| People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives. |
| No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. |
| Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. |
| Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. |
| No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience. |
| The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. |
| Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. |
| The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight. |
| The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice. |
| The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. |
| The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants. |
| Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. |
| I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also. |
| Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage. |
| Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country. |
| Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. |
