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| The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great god, that is, of helping them to help themselves. | | Brotherhood; Helpfulness | |
| The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life. | | Uncategorized | |
| The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. | | Crime | |
| There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 % Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else. | | Uncategorized | |
| There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. | | Uncategorized | |
| There is a homely adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far | | Uncategorized | |
| There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head | | Uncategorized | |
| There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the ''money touch',' but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers. | | Uncategorized | |
| To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. | | Uncategorized | |
| To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against that liberty of conscience which is one of the | | Uncategorized | |
| To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a meance to society. | | Uncategorized | |
| To sit home, read one's favorite newspaper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing. | | Uncategorized | |
To waste, to destroy, our natural resources,
to skin and exhaust the land instead of
using it so as to increase its usefulness,
will result in undermining in the days of our children
the very prosperity which we ought by right to
hand down to them amplified... | | Uncategorized | |
| War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare | | War | |
| Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace | | War | |
| We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out. | | Action; Courage; Duty | |
| We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all. | | America and Americans | |
| We demand that big business give people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right, he shall himself be given a square deal | | Business | |
| We fight in honorable fashion for the good of mankind; fearless of the future, unheeding of our individual fates, with unflinching hearts and undimmed eyes; we stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord | | Uncategorized | |
| We live in a great and free country only because our forefathers were willing to wage war rather than accept the peace that spells destruction | | Uncategorized | |
