
“Nine-tenths of wisdom is to be wise in time, and at the right time.”
Mem. Ed. XXII, 1913
“Nine-tenths of wisdom is to be wise in time, and at the right time.”
Mem. Ed. XXII, 1913
“Stability of economic policy must always be the prime economic need of this country.”
Second Annual Message, Washington, December 2, 1902
“Fit to hold our own against the strong nations of the earth, our voice for peace will carry to the ends of the earth.”
Eighth Annual Message, December 8, 1908
“I have not a particle of sympathy with the sentimentality – as I deem it, the mawkishness – which overflows with foolish pity for the criminal and cares not at all for the victim of the criminal.”
An Autobiography, 1913
“Business success, whether for the individual or for the nation, is a good thing only so far as it is accompanied by and develops a high standard of conduct — honor, integrity, civic courage.”
Fifth Annual Message, Washington, December 5, 1905
“In every field of endeavor the work best worth doing for Americans must in some degree express the distinctive characteristics of our own national soul.”
Address before the American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York City, November 1, 1916
“America will cease to be a great nation whenever her young men cease to possess energy, daring, and endurance, as well as the wish and the power to fight the nation’s foes.”
Preface to Hero Tales, with H.C. Lodge, 1895
“Nothing can take the place of the education of the home; and that education must be largely the unconscious influence of character upon character.”
Before the Minnesota State Legislature, St. Paul, Minnesota, April 4, 1903
“We favor co-operation in business, and ask only that it be carried on in a spirit of honesty and of fairness.”
National Progressive Convention, Chicago, Illinois, August, 1912
“No man is above the law and no man is below it, nor do we ask any man’s permission when we require him to obey it.”
Third Annual Message to Congress, December 7, 1903
“The government ought not to conduct the business of the country; but it ought to regulate is so that it shall be conducted in the interest of the public.”
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, October 4, 1906
“We can best get justice by doing justice.”
Speech, “National Duties,” September 2, 1901
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