“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”
“No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.”
“The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.”
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.”
“When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer ''present'' or ''not guilty.''”
“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”
“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!”
“It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.”
“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, ''Certainly I can!'' -- and get busy and find out how to do it.”
“The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.”
“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.”
“The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.”
“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
“It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.”
“No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
“It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.”
“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.”
“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.”
“Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.”
“One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other.”