Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.
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.
It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
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 first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
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.
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious 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.
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
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.
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.
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.