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 | "In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the
line hard." | |
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Found in the topic Football.
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| "I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people
upon great wealth." | |
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Found in the topic Wealth.
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| "Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of
society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck." | |
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Found in the topic Journalism.
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| "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to
succeed." | |
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Found in the topic Effort.
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| "Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell "em, "Certainly I
can!" ? and get busy and find out how to do it." | |
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Found in the topic Job.
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| "Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you"ve got
to start young." | |
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Found in the topic Age.
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| "Each child represents either a potential addition to the protective
capacity and enlightened citizenship of the nation or, if allowed to
suffer from neglect, a potential addition to the destructive forces of a
community.... The interests of the nation are involved in the welfare of
this array of children no less than in our great material affairs." | |
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Found in the topic Children.
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| "We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord." | |
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Found in the topic President.
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| "Power invariably means both responsibility and danger." | |
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Found in the topic Power.
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| "Nine-tenths of wisdom consists of being wise in time." | |
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Found in the topic Wisdom.
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| "Ask any man"s permission when we ask him to obey it." | |
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Found in the topic Peace.
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| "Speak softly and carry a big stick." | |
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Found in the topic Walk.
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| "Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly." | |
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Found in the topic Fight.
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| "The lunatic fringe in all reform movements." | |
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Found in the topic Reform.
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| "Death is always and under all circumtances a tragedy, for if it is
not, then it means that life itself has become one." | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of
altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress
is accomplished by the man who does things." | |
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Found in the topic Progress.
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| "In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the
Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in
flagrant cases of such wrong doing or impotence, to the exercise of an
international police power." | |
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Found in the topic War.
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| "Do what you can ? with what you have ? where you are." | |
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Found in the topic Ability.
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| "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the
strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done
them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly;
who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort
without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do
the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends
himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of
high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while
daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid
souls who know neither victory nor defeat." | |
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Found in the topic Action.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Ambition.
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