Teddy Roosevelt: “Real success consists in doing one’s duty well in the path where one’s life is led.”

I want every labor man, every labor leader, every organized union man, to take the lead in denouncing crime or violence.

Every special interest is entitled to justice—full, fair, and complete—and, now, mind you, if there were any attempt by mob-violence to plunder and work harm to the special interest, whatever it may be, that I most dislike, and the wealthy…

The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.

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.