I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot — but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.

Nothing is gained by debate on non-debatable subjects.

The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law.

There is nothing more distressing ... than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. Such laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes not merely the vacant mind, but the heart in which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

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

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.