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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
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.
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
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