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This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

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There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock market. One method is just pernicious to the body politic as the other kind.

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The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

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Do nothing to mar its grandeur ... keep it for your children, your children's children, and all who come after you, as the one great sight which every American should see.

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The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.

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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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A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.

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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

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I highly venerate the Masonic Institution, under the fullest persuasion that, when its principles are acknowledged and its laws and precepts obeyed, it comes nearest to the Christian religion, in its moral effects and influence, of any institution with which I am acquainted.

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More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle.

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Conservation means development as much as it does protection. A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.

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The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person) on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he is worthy to have.

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The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing class is composed of the strong men who take the trouble to do the work of government; and if you are too timid or too fastidious or too careless to do your part in this work, then you forfeit your right to be considered one of the governing and you become one of the governed insteadone of the driven cattle of the political arena.

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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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A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.

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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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While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.

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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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I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.

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It is time for us now as a nation to exercise the same reasonable foresight in dealing with our great natural resources that would be shown by any prudent man in conserving and widely using the property which contains the assurance of well-being for himself and his children.

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