Theodore Roosevelt

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.