“The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.”
Politics“When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all.”
Work“The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.”
Politics“The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.”
Good“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
Society“There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.”
History“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.”
Time“When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all.”
Work“The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.”
Women“No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.”
Great“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
Car“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.”
Good“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.”
Government“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
Best“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.”
Age“The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.”
Great“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
Best“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”
Learning“Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.”
Peace“If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.”
Great“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”
Education“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
Life