No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

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

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

It's not the critic that counts.

Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American. All privileges based on wealth, and all enmity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American-both of them equally so. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.