Pray not for lighter burdens but for stronger backs.
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.
We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to d...
Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above both is character. It is true, of course, that a genius may, on certain lines, do more than a brave and manly fellow who is n...
Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again who knows the great enthu...
We demand that big business give people a square deal in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honesdy endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperit...
Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
To all who have known really happy family lives, that is, to all who have known or who have witnessed the greatest happiness which there can be on this earth, it is hardly necessary to say that the hi...
I am a part of everything that I have read.
To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
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!
The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.
I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.