Theodore Roosevelt

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

You just have this freedom when you're younger - this lack of concern to fail or do anything wrong. It comes with an ease that I've found has kind of deteriorated over time.

The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save the most ignoble criminals ever sat in a ducking-stool.