“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.”
Women“For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.”
Success“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.”
Women“No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.”
Great“Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.”
Freedom“The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.”
Dreams“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.”
Car“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
History“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.”
Life“The government is us we are the government, you and I.”
Government“Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.”
Work“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”
Learning“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
Failure“Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.”
Men“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.”
Men“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”
Leadership“Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.”
Death“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.”
Good“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
Society“Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.”
Great“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”
Life“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.”
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