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"The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth."
"Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind"
"Nothing worth having comes easy."
"No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned."
"We wish to control big business so as to secure among other things good wages for the wage-workers and reasonable prices for the consumers. Wherever in any business the prosperity of the business man is obtained by lowering the wages of his workmen and charging an excessive price to the consumers we wish to interfere and stop such practices. We will not submit to that kind of prosperity any more than we will submit to prosperity obtained by swindling investors or getting unfair advantages over business rivals."
"No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night."
"The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives."
"Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us."
"I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps."
"It is not the critic who counts"
"Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time."
"Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American. All privileges based on wealth, and all enmity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American-both of them equally so. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life."
"Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground."
"All the resources we need are in the mind."
"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."
"Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare."
"Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character."
"The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development of personal responsibility, is the reason why we object to an unsupervised, unchecked monopolistic control in private hands. We urge control and supervision by the nation as an antidote to the movement for state socialism. Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism."
"The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community."
"The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war."