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There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously, neither hiding from ourselves the gravity of the problems before us nor fearing to approach these problems with the unbending, unflinching purpose to solve them aright.

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The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

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A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized yet.

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There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by the exercise of those qualities which have always been the prerequisites of success - the qualities of hard work, of keen intelligence, of unflinching will.

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The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person) on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he is worthy to have.

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It is better to be faithful than famous.

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It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of doing business under corporate form... they shall do so under absolutely truthful representations... Great corporations exist only because they were 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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It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he is morally stronger, but that he is intellectually weaker. He is not more virtuous. He is simply more foolish.

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To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!

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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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The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as well as in the military services by every means in our power. Thus, and not otherwise, may we be able to assist in preserving peace in the world... The first step – in the direction of preparation to avert war if possible, and to be fit for war if it should come – is to teach men to shoot!

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This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

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A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.

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Every special interest is entitled to justice - full, fair, and complete... but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench, or to representation in any public office.

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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

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Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

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We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.

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I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.

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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.

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