Life is a great adventure…accept it in such a spirit.

What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.

Believe you can do it and you are halfway there

Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

All that the law can do is to shape things so that no injustice shall be done by one to the other, and that each man shall be given the first chance to show the stuff that is in him.

Toward all other nations, large and small, our attitude must be one of cordial and sincere friendship. We must show not only in our words, but in our deeds, that we are earnestly desirous of securing their good will by acting toward them in a spirit of just and generous recognition of all their rights.