Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

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

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

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

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

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

In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American.