Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

The man who does not think it was America's duty to fight for her own sake in view of the infamous conduct of Germany toward us stands on a level with a man who wouldn't think it necessary to fight in a private quarrel because his wife's face was slapped.

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

It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.

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

We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

Where a trust becomes a monopoly the state has an immediate right to interfere.