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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 United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part in the world. Fate has made that choice for us. The only question is whether we will play the part well or badly.

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90% of the work in this country is done by people who don't feel good".

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In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.

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We have room in this country for but one flag, the Stars and Stripes!

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The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.

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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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Every expansion of civilization makes for peace. In other words, every expansion of a great civilized power means a victory for law, order, and righteousness. ...It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.

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There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter when the rocking chair in front of the fire simply demands an accompanying book.

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A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler.

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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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If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.

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The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.

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For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

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

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If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

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To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible.

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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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We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.

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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.

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