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The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
Massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
I have always said I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota.
A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.
Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time.
I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character.
We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel.
The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.
At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.
The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak.
What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.
What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.
Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference.
No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.
We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital.
It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.
The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.
I do not intend that our natural resources shall be exploited by the few against the interests of the many.
The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.
Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.
The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.
The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible.
Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.
What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.
I entirely appreciate loyalty to one"s friends, but loyalty to the cause of justice and honor stands above it.
I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender.
In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.
Your ability needs responsibility to expose its possibilities. Do what you can with what you have where you are.
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
In a crisis, the man worth his salt is the man who meets the needs of the situation in whatever way is necessary.
The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.
We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.
There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.