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It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and terrible side. Very much was done of good, and much also of evil; and, as was inevitable in such a period of revolution, often the same man did both good and evil. For our great good fortune as a nation, we, the people of the United States as a whole, can now afford to forget the evil, or, at least, to remember it without bitterness, and to fix our eyes with pride only on the good that was accomplished.

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Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

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No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.

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Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf of wickedness on the other, and it helps not to have avoided one gulf if you fall into the other.

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It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he shall go with hundreds of companions to see someone else play well.

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Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American. All privileges based on wealth, and all enmity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American-both of them equally so. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

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Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.

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There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.

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Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth.

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Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.

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Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.

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No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

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To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

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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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Believe you can do it and you are halfway there

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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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Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail.

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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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All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law

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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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