Political Quotes

I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.

Our country—this great Republic—means nothing unless it means the triumph of a real democracy, the triumph of popular government, and, in the long run, of an economic system under which each man shall be guaranteed the opportunity to show…

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.

I speak of the men of the past partly that they may be honored by our praise of them, but more that they may serve as examples for the future.