"Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and..." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

“Never hit if you can help it, but when you have to, hit hard. Never hit soft. You'll never get any thanks for hitting soft.”

“My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have.”

“The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.”

“Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.”

“I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.”

“As you can see, even when [Adolf] Hitler desires to speak for peace, he cannot dispense with threats. This is symptomatic.”

“If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.”

“I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair share of business prosperity. But it either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anybody can get any benefit from it.”

“In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.”