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.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

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.

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

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

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.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

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.

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.

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

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 government is us; we are the government, you and I.

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

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

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