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After nightfall the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams like running quicksilver, and the moonbeams play over the grassy stretches of the plateaus...The Bad Lands seem to be stranger and wilder than ever, the silvery rays turning the country into a kind of grim fairyland.

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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

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Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.

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The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If we of this generation destroy the resources from which our children would otherwise derive their livelihood, we reduce the capacity of our land to support a population, and so either degrade the standard of living or deprive the coming generations of their fight to life on this continent.

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No man can do both effective and decent work in public life unless he is a practical politician on the one hand, and a sturdy believer in Sunday-school politics on the other. He must always strive manfully for the best, and yet, like Abraham Lincoln, must often resign himself to accept the best possible.

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I do not in the least object to a sport because it is rough.

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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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Never hit if you can help it, but when you have to, hit hard. Never hit soft. You'll never get any thanks for hitting soft.

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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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Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.

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We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

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The great man is always the man of mighty effort.

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Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground.

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No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

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The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak.

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I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.

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Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

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McKinley shows all the background of a chocolate eclair.

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Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour of trial.

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If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay.

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