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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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I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action.

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No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.

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A party should not contain utterly incongruous elements, radically divided on the real issues, and acting together only on false and dead issues insincerely painted as real and vital. It should not in the several States as well as in the Nation be prostituted to the service of the baser type of political boss. It should be so composed that there should be a reasonable agreement in the actions taken by it both in the Nation and in the several States. Judged by these standards, both of the old parties break down.

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Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

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[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really good books on these subjects are as enthralling as any fiction ever written in prose or verse.

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There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.

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

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

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The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.

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Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.

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The great man is always the man of mighty effort.

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There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel.

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Power always brings with it responsibility.

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I do not intend that our natural resources shall be exploited by the few against the interests of the many.

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Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years.

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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

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Gradually the true Mason gains experience in using these working tools and can observe subtler and subtler indications of personal flaws.

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There is a point, of course, where a man must take the isolated peak and break with all his associates for clear principle; but until that time comes he must work, if he would be of use, with men as they are. As long as the good in them overbalances the evil, let him work with them for the best that can be obtained.

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The wild life of today is not ours to do with as we please. The original stock was given to us in trust for the benefit both of the present and the future. We must render an accounting of this trust to those who come after us.

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