Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make their dreams come true; who can kindle the people with the fir...
We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.
Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it rests with the Supreme Court to decide what they have really thought.
Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.
No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake.
Believe that you can and you are halfway there
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.
No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
Generally the thunder-storms came in the afternoon, but once I saw one at sunrise, driving down the high mountain valleys toward us. It was a very beautiful and almost terrible sight; for the sun rose...
When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.