"Nothing is gained by debate on non-debatable subjects."
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"I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more."
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"I do not care a rap as to who gets credit for the work, provided the work is done."
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"We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness."
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"In a crisis, the man worth his salt is the man who meets the needs of the situation in whatever way is necessary."
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"The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation."
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"There is a point, of course, where a man must take the isolated peak and break with all his associates for clear principle; but until that time comes he must work, if he would be of use, with men as they are. As long as the good in them overbalances the evil, let him work with them for the best that can be obtained."
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"Where a trust becomes a monopoly the state has an immediate right to interfere."
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"I am a man who believes with all fervor and intensity in moderate progress. Too often men who believe in moderation believe in it only moderately and tepidly and leave fervor to the extremists of the two sides - the extremists of reaction and the extremists of progress. Washington, Lincoln . . . are men who, to my mind, stand as the types of what wide, progressive leadership should be."
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"The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph from defeat."
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"There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition."
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"To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!"
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"Perhaps the most incapable Executive that ever filled the presidential chair...it would be difficult to imagine a man less fit to guide the state with honor and safety through the stormy times that marked the opening of the present century."
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"Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law. A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy."
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"There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this."
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"It is character that counts in a nation as in a man."
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"Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change."
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"The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and reckless assaults on character, whether on the stump or in newspaper, magazine, or book, create a morbid and vicious public sentiment, and at the same time act as a profound deterrent to able men of normal sensitiveness and tend to prevent them from entering the public service at any price."
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"A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade."
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"I stand for the square deal. I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service."
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