The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Theodore Roosevelt
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... →
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... →
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.
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... →
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
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... →
To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that... →
Elihu Root
Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a... →