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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.

He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.

Speak softly, and carry a big stick; you will go far.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.

Far better is it 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 neither victory nor defeat.

The men and women who have the right ideals ... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.

In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.

It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally.

I feel like a Bull Moose. - Theodore Roosevelt,

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.

I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

My hat is in the ring.