It's not the critic who counts.

We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either.

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

I wish to say seriously to all the daily newspapers, to the Republicans, the Democrat, and Socialist parties, that they cannot, month in month out and year in and year out, make the kind of untruthful, of bitter assault that they have made and not expect that brutal, violent natures, or brutal and violent characters, especially when the brutality is accompanied by a not very strong mind; they cannot expect that such natures will be unaffected by it.

Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.

There comes a time in the life of a nation, as in the life of an individual, when it must face great responsibilities, whether it will or no. We have now reached that time. We cannot avoid facing the fact that we occupy a new place among the people of the world.