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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has a moral right to withhold his support from an organization that is striving to improve conditions within his sphere.

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.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing to pull his weight.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.

The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck. - Theodore Roosevelt,

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor ; spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

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

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

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

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

It is better to be faithful than famous.

It is better to be faithful than famous.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.