The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.

Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.

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

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

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

I am a man who believes with all fervor and intensity in moderate progress. Too often men who believe in moderation believe in it only moderately and tepidly and leave fervor to the extremists of the two sides - the extremists of reaction and the extremists of progress. Washington, Lincoln . . . are men who, to my mind, stand as the types of what wide, progressive leadership should be.

I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.