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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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" 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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" 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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" When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. "

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" Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. "

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" Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. "

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" Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws. "

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

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" Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. "

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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 important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. "

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" Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe. "

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" The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. "

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" The American people abhor a vacuum. "

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" To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. "

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" It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. "

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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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" 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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" The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer. "

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" No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. "

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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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