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A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but i...  
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good eno...  
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college educati...  
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anythin...  
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of t...  
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffer...  
Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree ...  
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow smal...  
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an i...  
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.  
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.  
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but nev...  
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to...  
Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.  
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to wo...  
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even ...  
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if thi...  
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been ef...  
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyst...  
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions sp...  
I am a part of everything that I have read.  
I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the ...  
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about ...  
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I p...  
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and tha...  
I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate go...  
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is ...  
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your...  
In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. ...  
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of al...  
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.  
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolu...  
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.  
Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; t...  
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only m...  
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a nam...  
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.  
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.  
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.  
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man'...  
No man is above the law, and no man is below it.  
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.  
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his wel...  
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.  
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.  
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got t...   Age
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been cal...  
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructiv...  
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader lead...  
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of ...  
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to ...  
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going highe...  
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.  
The American people abhor a vacuum.  
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to ...  
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind mer...  
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that...  
The government is us; we are the government, you and I.  
The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit o...  
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level...  
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is know...   Success
The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinki...  
The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thin...  
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.  
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anyth...  
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young...  
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as ...  
The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on an...  
The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of sel...  
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peac...  
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be...  
There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room...  
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease w...  
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to s...  
To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the l...  
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the posi...  
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whethe...  
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' T...  
With self-discipline most anything is possible.