To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ‘weasel words’. When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ‘weasel word’ after another, there is nothing left of the other.

I have got such a bully pulpit!

We stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

The men with the muck-rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society; but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.