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The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation. Therefore it behooves us to do our best to see that the standard of the average citizen is kept high; and the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very much higher.

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Never hit if you can help it, but when you have to, hit hard. Never hit soft. You'll never get any thanks for hitting soft.

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By acting as if I was not afraid, I gradually ceased to be afraid.

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To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!

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Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.

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In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.

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I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.

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The teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally impossible for us to figure to ourselves what that life would be if these teachings were removed.

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My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.

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Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. You can only mar it. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. What you can do is keep it for your children, your children's children and for all who come after you.

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Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.

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Argument weak; speak loudly!

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The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages.

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He [Lincoln] had mastered it {the Bible] absolutely...mastered it so that he became almost 'a man of one Book', who knew that Book and who instinctively put into practice what he had been taught therein.

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An Airedale can do anything any other dog can do and then whip the other dog if he has to.

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The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man.

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If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or a sense of superfluous aloofness from the world of real men who do the world's real work, then it has harmed that individual.

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

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The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

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From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.

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