"A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man."
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"Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle."
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"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young."
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"If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay."
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"Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent."
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"Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe."
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"We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all."
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"We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already been destroyed, and not replaced, and other vast areas are on the verge of destruction. Yet forests, unlike mines, can be so handled as to yield the best results of use, without exhaustion, just like grain fields."
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"To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed."
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"It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize."
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"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
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"A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues."
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"There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid."
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"In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrong doing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power."
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"The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice."
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"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
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"There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. There is a delight in the hardy life of the open... Apart from this, yet mingled with it, is the strong attraction of the silent places, of the large tropic moons, and the splendor of the new stars; where the wanderer sees the awful glory of sunrise and sunset in the wide waste spaces of the earth, unworn of man, and changed only by the slow change of the ages through time everlasting."
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"Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death."
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"Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well."
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"Massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved."
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