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Americanism is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not creed or birthplaces. The test of our worth is the service we render.

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The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

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No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.

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When the time of danger comes, all Americans, whatever their social standing, whatever their creed, whatever the training they have received, no matter from what section of the country they have come, stand together as men, as Americans, and are content to face the same fate and do the same duties because fundamentally they all alike have the common purpose to serve the glorious flag of their common country.

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So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

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The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man.

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Not trying is the surest way of achieving nothing at all.

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What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.

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I do not believe there was ever a life more attractive than life on a cattle farm.

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Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference.

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There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons; and our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children's children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred.

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There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

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Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

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Just as Lincoln got contradictory advice from the extremists of both sides . . . so now I have to guard myself against the extremists of both sides.

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Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers

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I stand for the square deal. I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service.

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War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

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When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.

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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.

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