Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you`ve got to start young.

In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person`s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn`t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.

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.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn`t sit for a month.

I want to see you shoot the way you shout

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

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.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it

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.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virtues that made America. 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.

The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great god, that is, of helping them to help themselves.

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.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Don`t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

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

Far better it is 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 the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

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

The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don`t play at all.

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.

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.

"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."

"In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don`t foul and don`t shirk, but hit the line hard."

"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer."

"It is hard to fail. But it is worse never to have tried to succeed."

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities."

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

"Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience"

"A stream cannot rise larger than its source."

[Upon seeing a large section of forest that had been clearcut for lumber]: "I hope the son-of-a-bitch responsible for this burns in Hell!"

[His last words] "May you always know how much I love Sagamore Hill".

[When his wife and mother died on the same day] "The light has gone out of my life".

[Regretting his announcement that he would not run for a third term] "I would gladly cut off my right hand if I could recant that statement".

[regarding the Badlands of North Dakota] "They look like [Edgar Allan Poe] sounds."

[announcing his intention to run for President again in 1912] "My hat is in the ring. The fight is on and I am stripped to the buff."

"No other President ever enjoyed the presidency as I did."

"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."

A square deal for every man; that is the only safe motto for the United States

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!”

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public

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

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed

When you play, play hard; when you work, don`t play at all.”

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat

With self-discipline most anything is possible

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

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”

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.”

Speak softly but carry a big stick.