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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 not...more

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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.

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I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.

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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 mus...more

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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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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...more

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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...more

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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.

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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.

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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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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

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I want to see you shoot the way you shout.

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There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.