A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTA man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
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Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
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It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.
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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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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.
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I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.
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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
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There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.
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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.
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No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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All the resources we need are in the mind.
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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
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With self discipline most anything is possible.
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The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.
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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 and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
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We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.
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There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.
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When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
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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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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
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Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
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To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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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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