We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.

Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.

If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.