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" I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man. "

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" If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. "

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" I am a part of everything that I have read. "

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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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" 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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" A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. "

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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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" When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.' "

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" Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. "

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" The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead. "

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" If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. "

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" Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big. "

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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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" The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants. "

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" Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement. "

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" No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause. "

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" The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. "

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