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

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

90% of the work in this country is done by people who don't feel good".

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 at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.

Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from the oppression of wage workers to unfair methods of crushing out competition.

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