No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
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Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.Theodore Roosevelt
The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
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There is a homely adage which runs, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far.' If the American nation will speak softly and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.
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Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the
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In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is Hit the line hard.
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I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
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