"In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense."
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"If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing end of life. Happiness cannot come to any man capable of enjoying true happiness unless it comes as the sequel to duty well and honestly done. To do that duty you need to have more than one trait. 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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"It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better."
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"The Cubists are entitled to the serious attention of all who find enjoyment in the colored puzzle pictures of the Sunday newspapers."
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"You, the sons of the pioneers, if you are true to your ancestry, must make your lives as worthy as they made theirs. They sought for true success, and therefore they did not seek ease. They knew that success comes only to those who lead the life of endeavor"
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"The public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on conditions that seem good at the moment should be subject to revision when changed conditions demand."
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"Conservation means development as much as it does protection. A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can."
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"It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching."
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"It's not the critic that counts."
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"In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans."
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"When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still in the prime of our lusty youth, still at the beginning of our glorious manhood, to sit down among the outworn people, to take our place with the weak and the craven? A thousand times no!"
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"When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant."
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"A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler."
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"Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies."
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"If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more."
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"A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives; when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them; not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk."
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"Kings and such are just as funny as politicians."
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"The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights."
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"A leader is an average, everyday person who is highly motivated."
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"All constitutions, those of the States no less than that of the nation, are designed, and must be interpreted and administered so as to fit human rights."
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