Theodore Roosevelt

“It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.”

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

“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.”

“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.”

“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.”

“Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.”

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”

“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.”

“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.”

“Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.”

“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.”

“No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.”

“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”

“There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.”

“I am a part of everything that I have read.”

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

“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”

“Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.”

“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.”

“With self-discipline most anything is possible.”

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”