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It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood.

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I do not intend that our natural resources shall be exploited by the few against the interests of the many.

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Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.

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We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

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It is imperative to exercise over big business a control and supervision which is unnecessary as regards small business. All business must be conducted under the law, and all business men, big or little, must act justly. But a wicked big interest is necessarily more dangerous to the community than a wicked little interest. 'Big business' in the past has been responsible for much of the special privilege which must be unsparingly cut out of our national life.

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There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.

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

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Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground.

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Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy.

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

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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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We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord.

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The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.

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We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil and the gas are exhausted.

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If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more.

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Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

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The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.

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My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded; ordinarily and in the great majority of cases, human rights and property rights are fundamentally and in the long run, identical; but when it clearly appears that there is a real conflict between them, human rights must have the upper hand; for property belongs to man and not man to property.

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In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

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Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law. A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

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