"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."

"When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."

"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not Guilty."

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives."

"The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything."

"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause."

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

"No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort."

"He and I are happy today that the worst of the crisis is over."

"We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done."

"The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty."

"Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard."

"At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies."

"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body - to risk his well-being - to risk his life - in a great cause"

"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."

"We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster."

"My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff."

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft."

"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."

"The American people abhor a vacuum."

"For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison."

"I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head."

"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."

"Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time."

"Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive."

"There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else."

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft."

"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."

"The American people abhor a vacuum."

"For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison."

"I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head."

"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."

"Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time."

"Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive."

"There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else."

"With self-discipline most anything is possible."

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

"We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all."

"I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being."

"Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike."

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public."

"We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out."

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort."

"Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big."

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. 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; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."

"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time."