I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.

Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs.

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

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

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."

There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.

To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.

A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.

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

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

An Airedale can do anything any other dog can do and then whip the other dog if he has to.

It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.

We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage.

A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.

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

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.

It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

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

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

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.

Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.

I always keep my weather eye on the opposition of my seventh house Moon to my first house Mars.

To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.

The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American

What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.

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

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

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

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

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

The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.

The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings

Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.

I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.

A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.

Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

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

I have always said I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota.

Massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

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