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" Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. "
Theodore Roosevelt
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" A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. "
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" Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement. "
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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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" Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace. "
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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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" 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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" Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. "
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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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" Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. "
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" The government is us; we are the government, you and I. "
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" When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. "
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" Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. "
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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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" The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name. "
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" Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. "
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" I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being. "
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" Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. "
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" I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head. "
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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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" Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved. "
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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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" I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character! "
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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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" 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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" 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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" A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. "
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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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