"Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shrink neither."
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"Americanism is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not creed or birthplaces. The test of our worth is the service we render."
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"Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere."
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"Let us live in the harness, striving mightily."
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"Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology."
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"It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself."
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"Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph."
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"A nation that still needs to distinguish between stealing an election, and stealing a new pair of shoes, is not completely civilized yet."
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"From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens."
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"There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life."
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"An Airedale can do anything any other dog can do and then whip the other dog if he has to."
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"We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord."
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"Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work must no longer be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits."
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"The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat slothfully by while they destroyed. We have passed this stage.... Here in the U.S. we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy our forests and exterminate fishes, birds and mammals - not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at best it looks as if our people were awakening."
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"The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages."
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"If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful."
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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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"Black care rarely sits behind the rider whose pace is fast enough."
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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, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them.... If they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone."
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"McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair."
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