“The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.”

Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.

We are the heirs of the ages.

I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Politeness is a sign of dignity not subservience.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires

Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one’s talents and gifts to the benefits of others – these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away.

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

If your dreams demand you to walk through hell, walk-in as you are the owner of the place.

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires

Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe – not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.