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

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.

Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.

It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and terrible side. Very much was done of good, and much also of evil; and, as was inevitable in such a period of revolution, often the same man did both good and evil. For our great good fortune as a nation, we, the people of the United States as a whole, can now afford to forget the evil, or, at least, to remember it without bitterness, and to fix our eyes with pride only on the good that was accomplished.

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

We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.