“Truth telling is a virtue upon which we should not only insist in the schools and at home, but in business and politics just as much.”

Speech in Ventura, CA
May 9, 1903

“The division between the worthy and the unworthy citizen must be drawn on conduct and character and not wealth or poverty.”

Outlook
March 25, 1911

“There is much less need of genius or of any special brilliancy in the administration of our government than there is need of such homely virtues and qualities as common sense, honesty, and courage.”

Address in Albany, New York
January 1895

“We must see that this nation stands for strength and honesty both at home and abroad.”

Speech in Colorado Springs
1901

“The disloyal man, whether his disloyalty is open or disguised, is our worst foe.”

The Greatest Adventure
1918

“Justice consists not in being neutral between right and being wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.”

Fear God and Take Your Own Part
1916

“Patriotism is as much a duty in time of war as in time of peace, and it is most of all a duty in any and every great crisis.”

Fear God and Take Your Own Part
1916

“Nothing worth gaining is ever gained without effort.”

Speech in Buffalo, NY
January 26, 1893

“All people alive to the nation’s need should join together to work for the moral, spiritual, and physical welfare of the children in all parts of our land.”

Speech at Jamestown Exposition
June 10, 1907

“Treaties must never be recklessly made.”

America and the World War, 1915

“All individuals, rich or poor, private or corporate, must be subject to the law of the land.”

Outlook Magazine
September 27, 1902

“The men who do the great work for the nation are the men who, for a money payment infinitely less than what they would earn in civil life, face terrible risk and endure indescribable hardship and fatigue and misery at the front.”

Metropolitan Magazine
November 1918