Teddy Roosevelt: “Teach them not to shirk difficulties; but to overcome them.”

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles.

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…

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.

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