“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
Society“It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.”
Work“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
Society“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”
Leadership“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.”
Men“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“With self-discipline most anything is possible.”
Inspirational“The government is us we are the government, you and I.”
Government“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“Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.”
Work“Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.”
Great“A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.”
Politics“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 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“Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.”
Freedom“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.”
Life“It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.”
Work“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.”
Age“It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.”
Best“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“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“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.”
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