There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us... It is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it, that counts.

I have had a great time as president.

No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.

Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.

Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.

We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil and the gas are exhausted.

The country's honor must be upheld at home and abroad.