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" Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. "
Theodore Roosevelt
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" Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. "
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" Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor. "
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" Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. "
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" A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. "
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" Believe you can and you're halfway there. "
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" The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead. "
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" The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name. "
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" The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife. "
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" Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace. "
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" There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. "
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" Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage. "
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" I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. "
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" The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice. "
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" Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. "
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Been
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" A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. "
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Man
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" Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. "
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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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Failure
" The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer. "
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" The American people abhor a vacuum. "
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People
American
" The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. "
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" Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft. "
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Soft
Hit
Avoid
" Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. "
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Go
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" Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body. "
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Great
Justice
Peace
" In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. "
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Best
Moment
You
" To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. "
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Morals
Mind
" Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. "
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" No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort. "
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Effort
Done
Ever
" I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also. "
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Zone
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" The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. "
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