It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThe 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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Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
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All the resources we need are in the mind.
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All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
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It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don’t know anything outside their own business.
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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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There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.
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The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books.
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I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
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Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
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Conservation means development as much as it does protection.
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When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
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In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
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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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