“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
Society“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.”
Time“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
Society“Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.”
Great“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”
Courage“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
Inspirational“A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.”
Politics“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
Life“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.”
Great“The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.”
Politics“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.”
Life“When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all.”
Work“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“No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.”
Great“The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.”
Attitude“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“I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.”
Work“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
Best“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”
Life“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“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“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
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