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A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.

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Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work must no longer be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits.

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My hat is in the ring.

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There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done ... Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs.

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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

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Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.

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I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.

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I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

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Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.

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The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

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We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.

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There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.

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It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it.

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Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others.

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The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

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Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men.

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

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One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other.

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Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action.

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Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.

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