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.
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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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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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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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
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Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
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Nothing worth having comes easy.
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I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
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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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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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In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.
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Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
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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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When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty’.
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A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
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Politeness is a sign of dignity not subservience.
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