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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

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Perhaps the most incapable Executive that ever filled the presidential chair...it would be difficult to imagine a man less fit to guide the state with honor and safety through the stormy times that marked the opening of the present century.

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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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From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady unwearing friend of man.

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The worst of all fears is the fear of living

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The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

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Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men.

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The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph from defeat.

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Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free from any suspicion of improper action on partisan or factional grounds, so that there shall be gradually a growth, even though a slow growth, in the knowledge that the Federal courts and the representatives of the Federal Department of Justice insist on meting out even-handed justice to all.

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All constitutions, those of the States no less than that of the nation, are designed, and must be interpreted and administered so as to fit human rights.

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Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them.... If they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone.

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The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.

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When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still in the prime of our lusty youth, still at the beginning of our glorious manhood, to sit down among the outworn people, to take our place with the weak and the craven? A thousand times no!

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A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

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A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

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Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.

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If I were a factory employee, a workman on the railroads or a wage-earner of any sort, I would undoubtedly join the union of my trade. If I disapproved of its policy, I would join in order to fight that policy; if the union leaders were dishonest, I would join in order to put them out. I believe in the union and I believe that all men who are benefited by the union are morally bound to help to the extent of their power in the common interests advanced by the union.

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We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

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The supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. We pledge ourselves to work unceasingly in State and Nation for ... the protection of home life against the hazards of sickness, irregular employment and old age through the adoption of a system of social insurance adapted to American use.

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The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice; for it is always a confession of inferiority. It may promote conduct which will be fruitful of wrong to others, and it must cause misery to the man who feels it.

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