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" I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also. "

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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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" 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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" The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. "

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

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" The government is us; we are the government, you and I. "

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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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" 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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" The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight. "

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" It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. "

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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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" A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. "

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" Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor. "

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" Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. "

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