Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"I am a part of everything that I have read."

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

"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."

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

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

"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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