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A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

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I have always said I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota.

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The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

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Performance should be made square with promise.

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Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

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Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made.

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

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Do Something Now. If not you, who? If not here, where? If not now, when?

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I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope - the door of opportunity - is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong.

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We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.

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We have room for but one loyalty, loyalty to the United States.

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I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot — but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.

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I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character.

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The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and reckless assaults on character, whether on the stump or in newspaper, magazine, or book, create a morbid and vicious public sentiment, and at the same time act as a profound deterrent to able men of normal sensitiveness and tend to prevent them from entering the public service at any price.

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Compromise" is so often used in a bad sense that it is difficult to remember that properly it merely describes the process of reaching an agreement. Naturally there are certain subjects on which no man can compromise. For instance, there must be no compromise under any circumstances with official corruption, and of course no man should hesitate to say as much.

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It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.

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The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens.

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The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.

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It may be that 'the voice of the people is the voice of God' in fifty one cases out of a hundred, but in the remaining forty nine it is quite as likely to be the voice of the devil, of, what is still worse, the voice of a fool.

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Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law. A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

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