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

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

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

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.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.

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.

The American people abhor a vacuum.

The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty. - Roosevelt, Theodore

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

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other.