No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights.

Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.

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

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt