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Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.



If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.



When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not Guilty.



People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.



The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.



No man is above the law and no man below it.



It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.



We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.



I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.



It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.



In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing.



Have you got a problem? Do what you can where you are with what you've got.



A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.



Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground



Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.








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