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

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

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

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.

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.

A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives; when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them; not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk.

The public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on conditions that seem good at the moment should be subject to revision when changed conditions demand.