No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

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

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, right or wrong - is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

The wild life of today is not ours to do with as we please. The original stock was given to us in trust for the benefit both of the present and the future. We must render an...

The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part in the world. Fate has made that choice for us. The only question is whether...

The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Far better it is 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...

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure , than to take rank with those poor spires who neither enjoy much nor suffer...

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.