"The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism."

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"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

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"Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion."

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"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."

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"There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal."

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"You can't know too much, but you can say too much."

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"I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement."

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"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."

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"No one every listened themselves out of a job."

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"Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country."

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"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

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"What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations."

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"Civilization and profits go hand in hand."

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"Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good."

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"Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing."

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"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped."

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"Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws."

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"Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance."

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"No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist."

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"If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it."

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"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong."

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"The business of the country is business."

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"No man ever listened himself out of a job."

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"If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that 9 will run into the ditch before they reach you."

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"We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen."

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