It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws. |
It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize. |
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. |
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. |
It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home |
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 them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. |
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things |
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things |
It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time. |
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. |
Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws. |
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. |
Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out. |
My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff. |
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering |