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Don't limit your challenges - challenge your limits. Don't spread patriotism too thin.

Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.

I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.

I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.

There should be at least ten times the number of rifles in the country as there are now.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.

Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs.

There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.

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

To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."

A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.

We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage.

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.

It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.

An Airedale can do anything any other dog can do and then whip the other dog if he has to.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally.

Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.

The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

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

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

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.

I always keep my weather eye on the opposition of my seventh house Moon to my first house Mars.

To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.

The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American

What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

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

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.

Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.

Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed.

The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.

A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.

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