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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. "

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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" When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. "

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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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" Believe you can and you're halfway there. "

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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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" The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name. "

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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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" Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. "

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

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

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" Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. "

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