“There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.”
History“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“There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.”
History“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.”
Government“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
Best“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”
Success“The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.”
Great“When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all.”
Work“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
History“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“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“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”
Learning“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“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.”
Life“No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.”
Great“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.”
Time“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”
Life“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“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.”
Great“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.”
Good“The government is us we are the government, you and I.”
Government“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.”
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