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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

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In name we had the Declaration of Independence in 1776; but we gave the lie by our acts to the words of the Declaration of Independence until 1865; and words count for nothing except in so far as they represent acts.

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Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.

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The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part in the world. Fate has made that choice for us. The only question is whether we will play the part well or badly.

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It is always better to be an original than an imitation.

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Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle.

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When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.

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Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character not only such qualities as honesty and truthfulness, but courage, perseverance and self-reliance.

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Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few and the triumph in both politics and business of a sordid and selfish materialism.

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Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.

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The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

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There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by the exercise of those qualities which have always been the prerequisites of success - the qualities of hard work, of keen intelligence, of unflinching will.

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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

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It's not the critic who counts.

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I do not believe there was ever a life more attractive than life on a cattle farm.

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To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.

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But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.

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The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

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There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship. You get it by applying the old, old rules of decent conduct, the rules in accordance with which decent men have had to shape their lives from the beginning .. fundamental precepts, put forth in the Bible and embodied consciously or unconsciously in the code of morals of every great and successful nation from antiquity to modern times.

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In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

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