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What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.

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Because we are unqualifiedly and without reservation against any system of denominational schools, maintained by the adherents of any creed with the help of state aid, therefore, we as strenuously insist that the public schools shall be free from sectarian influences, and above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.

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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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I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his father in this respect, and will prove able to play the national game.

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In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard.

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The Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution.

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I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

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There is need of a sound body, and even more need of a sound mind. But above mind and above body stands character-the sum of those qualities which we mean when we speak of a man's force and courage, of his good faith and sense of honor.

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A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

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The White House is a bully pulpit.

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The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.

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I do not care a rap as to who gets credit for the work, provided the work is done.

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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

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Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

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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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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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The American people abhor a vacuum.

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If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.

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A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage... For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

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Nothing is gained by debate on non-debatable subjects.

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