"What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does."
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"In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life."
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"wild flowers should be enjoyed unplucked where they grow."
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"Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it."
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"The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country."
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"My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have."
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"In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make their dreams come true; who can kindle the people with the fire from their own burning souls. The leader for the time being, whoever he may be, is but an instrument, to be used until broken and then to be cast aside; and if he is worth his salt he will care no more when he is broken than a soldier cares when he is sent where his life is forfeit in order that the victory may be won."
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"The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation. Therefore it behooves us to do our best to see that the standard of the average citizen is kept high; and the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very much higher."
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"The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments."
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"Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf of wickedness on the other, and it helps not to have avoided one gulf if you fall into the other."
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"Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly."
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"Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs."
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"It's not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts."
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"I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to."
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"A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood."
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"Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail."
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"I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character."
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"More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle."
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"We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and great plains States will take the lead in the preservation and right use of forests, in securing the right use of waters, and in seeing that our land policy is not twisted from its original purpose, but is perpetuated by amendment, by change when such change is necessary in the life of that purpose, the purpose being to turn the public domain into farms each to be the property of the man who actually tills it and makes his home in it."
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"Property belongs to man and not man to property."
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