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| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| I have often been afraid, but I wouldn't give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid, and gradually my fear disappeared. | | Uncategorized | |
| I took the canal zone and let congress debate, and while the debate goes on the canal does also | | Uncategorized | |
| I want to see you shoot the way you shout | | Killing | |
| I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life | | Uncategorized | |
| If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln | | Uncategorized | |
| If I must choose between peace and righteousness, I choose righteousness | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Military; War | |
| If we do not protect the environment now, we cannot ensure a strong nation for our children, ... If we do not act today, many of these lands will be gone. | | Uncategorized | |
| If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. | | Violence | |
| 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 | | Uncategorized | |
| In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is:hit the line hard. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Americans; Loyalty | |
| 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. | | Action; Progress; Work | |
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| It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws. | | Uncategorized | |
| It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize. | | Uncategorized | |
| It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. | | Failure | |
| It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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 | | Uncategorized | |
