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Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are also necessary to the full and many-sided development of a fine race.

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Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.

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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

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For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know

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Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference.

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While President, I have been President - emphatically.

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Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.

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Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.

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The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens.

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I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

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It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.

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Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

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Each child represents either a potential addition to the protective capacity and enlightened citizenship of the nation or, if allowed to suffer from neglect, a potential addition to the destructive forces of a community. . . . The interests of the nation are involved in the welfare of this array of children no less than in our great material affairs.

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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.

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We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster.

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Every expansion of civilization makes for peace. In other words, every expansion of a great civilized power means a victory for law, order, and righteousness. ...It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.

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Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.

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Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

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The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war.

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I do not in the least object to a sport because it is rough.

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