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No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so after his day's work is done he will have time and energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in carrying the general load.

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The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.

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I believe that there should be a very much heavier progressive tax on very large incomes, a tax which should increase in a very marked fashion for the gigantic incomes.

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Let us live in the harness, striving mightily.

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Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit!

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No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

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The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.

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Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

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Get action. Do things; be sane; don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.

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I do not believe that any man can adequately appreciate the world of to-day unless he has some knowledge of -- a little more than a slight knowledge, some feeling for and of -- the history of the world of the past.

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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

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Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.

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

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The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great god, that is, of helping them to help themselves.

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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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Give the brethren a chance to do something, anything, no matter how small or unimportant. A brother convinced that he is helpful is enthusiastic.

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It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.

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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

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Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

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A man must first care for his own household before he can be of use to the state. But no matter how well he cares for his household, he is not a good citizen unless he also takes thought of the state. In the same way, a great nation must think of its own internal affairs; and yet it cannot substantiate its claim to be a great nation unless it also thinks of its position in the world at large.

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