"The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows."
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"Progress has brought us both unbounded opportunities and unbridled difficulties. Thus, the measure of our civilization will not be that we have done much, but what we have done with that much. I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism. The thought of modern industry in the hands of Christian charity is a dream worth dreaming. The thought of industry in the hands of paganism is a nightmare beyond imagining. The choice between the two is upon us."
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"Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one."
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"With self-discipline, all things are possible"
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"Don't spread patriotism too thin."
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"It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time."
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"It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally."
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"My hat is in the ring."
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"I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates."
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"The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American"
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"No President has ever enjoyed himself as much as I?"
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"We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster."
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"My experience...convinced me that tea was better than brandy, and during the last six months in Afica I took no brandy, even when sick taking tea instead."
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"Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck."
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"The object of government is the welfare of the people."
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"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause."
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"Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere; along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great desert wastes alike...If it can it will get out of the way, and only coils up in its attitude of defence when it believes that it is actually menaced."
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"I regard the Masonic institution as one of the means ordained by the Supreme Architect to enable mankind to work out the problem of destiny; to fight against, and overcome, the weaknesses and imperfections of his nature, and at last to attain to that true life of which death is the herald and the grave the portal."
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"It's not the critic who counts."
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"Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement."
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