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| Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping. | | Uncategorized | |
| People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives. | | Bosses; Leadership | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Action; Rhetoric | |
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| Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement | | Uncategorized | |
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| Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers | | Family | |
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| The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame | | Uncategorized | |
| 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 | | Managers | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life | | Uncategorized | |
| The country's honor must be upheld at home and abroad | | Uncategorized | |
| The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never tasted victory or defeat. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Citizenship | |
| The government is us; we are the government, you and I | | Uncategorized | |
| The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side | | Uncategorized | |
