"When money comes in at the gate, sport flies out at the window."
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"Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation."
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"The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad."
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"To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American."
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"I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth."
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"The bulk of government is not legislation but administration."
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"Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes."
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"The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be."
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"Don't limit your challenges - challenge your limits. Don't spread patriotism too thin."
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"There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind"
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"The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have called into being. There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done."
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"Yes, my friend, and if you will steal for me then you will steal from me."
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"On the whole, we think that the greatest victories are yet to be won, the greatest deeds yet to be done, and that there are yet in store for our peoples, and for the causes that we uphold, grander triumphs than have ever yet been scored. But be this as it may, we gladly agree that the one plain duty of every man is to face the future as he faces the present, regardless of what it may have in store for him, turning toward the light as he sees the light, to play his part manfully, as a man among men."
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"The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages."
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"The chase is among the best of all national pastimes; it cultivates that vigorous manliness for the lack of which in a nation, as in an individual, the possession of no other qualities can possibly atone."
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"Each man must work for himself, and unless he so works, no outside help can avail him."
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"All that the law can do is to shape things so that no injustice shall be done by one to the other, and that each man shall be given the first chance to show the stuff that is in him."
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"I do not in the least object to a sport because it is rough."
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"All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American."
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"I have had a great time as president."
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