Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

All that the law can do is to shape things so that no injustice shall be done by one to the other, and that each man shall be given the first chance to show the stuff that is in him.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

There must be no division by class hatred, whether this hatred be that of creed against creed, nationality against nationality, section against section, or men of one social or industrial condition against men of another social and industrial condition. We must ever judge each individual on his own conduct and merits, and not on his membership in any class, whether that class be based on theological, social, or industrial considerations.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.