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The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

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Unjust war is to be abhorred; but woe to the nation that does not make ready to hold its own in time of need against all who would harm it! And woe thrice over to the nation in which the average man loses the fighting edge, loses the power to serve as a soldier if the day of need should arise!

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The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

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I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.

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Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character not only such qualities as honesty and truthfulness, but courage, perseverance and self-reliance.

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It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and which shall discriminate in favor of the honest and humane employer by removing the disadvantage under which he stands when compared with unscrupulous competitors who have no conscience and will do right only under fear of punishment.

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To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.

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I have already lived and enjoyed as much life as any nine other men I have known.

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The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.

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I want to see you shoot the way you shout.

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The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

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I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural history, and my ambition was to be a scientific man of the Audubon, or Wilson, or Baird, or Coues type-a man like Hart Merriam, or Frank Chapman, or Hornaday, to-day.

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I'm as strong as a bull moose and you can use me to the limit.

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I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth.

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The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

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The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman. The rude, fierce settler who drives the savage from the land lays all civilized mankind under a debt to him. ...[I]t is of incalculable importance that America, Australia, and Siberia should pass out of the hands of their red, black, and yellow aboriginal owners, and become the heritage of the dominant world races.

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The teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally impossible for us to figure to ourselves what that life would be if these teachings were removed.

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All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law

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The bosses of the Democratic party and the bosses of the Republican party alike have a closer grip than ever before on the party machines in the States and in the Nation. This crooked control of both the old parties by the beneficiaries of political and business privilege renders it hopeless to expect any far-reaching and fundamental service from either.

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The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.

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