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Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

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

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Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from the oppression of wage workers to unfair methods of crushing out competition.

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What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.

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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 good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own. Probably the best test of true love of liberty in any country is the way in which minorities are treated in that country. Not only should there be complete liberty in matters of religion and opinion, but complete liberty for each man to lead his life as he desires, provided only that in so doing he does not wrong his neighbor.

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The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation.

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Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things.

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We here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men.

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Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.

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The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights.

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Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

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There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.

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What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.

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Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare

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The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.

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A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

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There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

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Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.

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