"I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary."
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"We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either."
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"Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands on a continent and clasps the crest of an ocean in either hand. Our nation, glorious in youth and strength, looks into the future with eager eyes and rejoices as a strong man to run a race."
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"Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so."
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"The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down on their task because it is cast in the day of small things; scornful of baseness, awake to their own duties as well as to their rights, following the higher law with reverence, and in this world doing all that in their power lies, so that when death comes they may feel that humanity is in some degree better because they lived."
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"No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort."
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"All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood."
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"It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws."
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"I want to see you shoot the way you shout."
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"A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal; the conditions under which they have lived and have done their work have been better than in any similar work ever undertaken in the tropics; they have all felt an eager pride in their work; and they have made not only America but the whole world their debtors by what they have accomplished."
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"Speak softly, I'm getting my massage."
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"The hardest lessons to learn are those that are the most obvious."
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"If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves."
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"I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used for the purpose of advancing any particular creed; and therefore that the public schools shall be nonsectarian and no public moneys appropriated for sectarian schools."
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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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"There is no effort without error or shortcoming."
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"What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice."
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"He [Lincoln] had mastered it {the Bible] absolutely...mastered it so that he became almost 'a man of one Book', who knew that Book and who instinctively put into practice what he had been taught therein."
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"The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die."
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"No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us."
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