"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
"Comparison is the thief of joy."
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."
"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care."
"Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right."
"Patriotism means to stand by the country."
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
"Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty."
"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength."
"I am a part of everything that I have read."
"Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance."
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
"A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."
"Politeness is a sign of dignity not subservience."
"When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all."
"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'."
"If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow."
"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering."
"No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
"The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run."
"The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it."
"In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans."
"No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong."
"If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness."
"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency."
"Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure."
"Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe."
"For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know."
"A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy."
"In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard."
"No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned."
"I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man."
"The worst of all fears is the fear of living."
"Nothing worth having comes easy."
"No man is above the law, and no man is below it."
"The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value."
"Conservation means development as much as it does protection."
"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."
"I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened."
"The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly."
"All the resources we need are in the mind."
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."
"There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction."