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"Lincoln-sad, patient, kindly Lincoln, who after bearing upon his weary shoulders for four years a greater burden than that borne by any other man of the nineteenth century laid down his life for the people whom living he had served as well-built upon his early study of the Bible."
"Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it."
"Never hit if you can help it, but when you have to, hit hard. Never hit soft. You'll never get any thanks for hitting soft."
"It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it."
"The dreams of golden glory in the future will not come true unless, high of heart and strong of hand, by our own mighty deeds we make them come true."
"While President, I have been President - emphatically."
"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 words of the Declaration of Independence, as given effect by Washington...are to be accepted as real, and not as empty phrases...that in very truth this is a government by the people themselves, that the Constitution is theirs, that the courts are theirs, that all the government agents and agencies are theirs... It is for the people themselves finally to decide all questions of public policy and to have their decision made effective...We here, in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world."
"Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our house in order and begin to live within our means."
"The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life."
"I feel as fit as a bull moose."
"The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world."
"The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer."
"It is time for us now as a nation to exercise the same reasonable foresight in dealing with our great natural resources that would be shown by any prudent man in conserving and widely using the property which contains the assurance of well-being for himself and his children."
"My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded; ordinarily and in the great majority of cases, human rights and property rights are fundamentally and in the long run, identical; but when it clearly appears that there is a real conflict between them, human rights must have the upper hand; for property belongs to man and not man to property."
"The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it. Life is a great adventure, and I want to say to you, accept it in such a spirit."
"I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth."
"Gradually the true Mason gains experience in using these working tools and can observe subtler and subtler indications of personal flaws."
"Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile."
"There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously, neither hiding from ourselves the gravity of the problems before us nor fearing to approach these problems with the unbending, unflinching purpose to solve them aright."