"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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"No nation can be really great unless it is great in peace, in industry, integrity, honesty. Skilled intelligence in civic affairs and industrial enterprises alike; the special ability of the artist, the man of letters, the man of science, and the man of business; the rigid determination to wrong no man, and to stand for righteousness-all these are necessary in a great nation."
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"From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers and kinfolk - I felt a great admiration for men who were fearless and who could hold their own in the world. And I had a great desire to be like them."
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"Compromise" is so often used in a bad sense that it is difficult to remember that properly it merely describes the process of reaching an agreement. Naturally there are certain subjects on which no man can compromise. For instance, there must be no compromise under any circumstances with official corruption, and of course no man should hesitate to say as much."
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"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer."
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"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."
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"Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering."
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"If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness."
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"It is better to be faithful than famous."
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"A party should not contain utterly incongruous elements, radically divided on the real issues, and acting together only on false and dead issues insincerely painted as real and vital. It should not in the several States as well as in the Nation be prostituted to the service of the baser type of political boss. It should be so composed that there should be a reasonable agreement in the actions taken by it both in the Nation and in the several States. Judged by these standards, both of the old parties break down."
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"The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life."
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"Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another."
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"Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking."
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"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism."
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"If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness."
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"There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act."
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"It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he shall go with hundreds of companions to see someone else play well."
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"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy."
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"Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life."
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"Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past."
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