It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

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Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.

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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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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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Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare.

Theodore Roosevelt in An Autobiography
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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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