Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. – Theodore Roosevelt
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. – Theodore Roosevelt
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. – Theodore Roosevelt
I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man. – Theodore Roosevelt
The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own…. It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism. – James Gleick, 1993