We do not admire a man of timid peace.

To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

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

I stand for the square deal. I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service.

When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.

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

Americanism is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not creed or birthplaces. The test of our worth is the service we render.