Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
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.
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
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.
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.