I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTEvery reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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A man’s usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
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Nothing worth having comes easy.
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For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
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Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
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In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.
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I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
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The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
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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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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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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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If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
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No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.
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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
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