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

Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.

The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.

I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.