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To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!

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Yes, my friend, and if you will steal for me then you will steal from me.

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Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

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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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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

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I have had a great time as president.

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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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Our country, we have faith to believe, is only at the beginning of its growth. Unless the forests of the United States can be made ready to meet the vast demands which this growth will inevitably bring, commercial disaster, that means disaster to the whole country, is inevitable.

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So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

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McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair.

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The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.

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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.

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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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A man's usefulness depends on his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune, make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. 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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...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

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There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.

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In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character.

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Mother went off for three days to New York and Mame and Quentin took instant advantage of her absence to fall sick. Quentin's sickness was surely due to a riot in candy and ice-cream with chocolate sauce.

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It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

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