Believe you can and you're halfway there.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

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.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

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.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

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

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

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

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

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.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

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 most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

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.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

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.

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.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

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.

Far better is it 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 a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

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.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

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

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

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

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

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

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.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

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

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

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.

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

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.