Teddy Roosevelt: “You must do what is right to your family and your neighbors before you can help the State.”

Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world.

Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.

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

Practical equality of opportunity for all citizens, when we achieve it, will have two great results.