"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation."

Buck, Pearl S. on youth
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"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives."

Roosevelt, Theodore on leadership
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"It is better to be faithful than famous."

Roosevelt, Theodore on loyalty
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"There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 % Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else."

Roosevelt, Theodore on multiculturalism   

"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."

Roosevelt, Theodore on patriotism
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"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer."

Roosevelt, Theodore on peace
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"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."

Roosevelt, Theodore on power
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"Speak well of your enemies... you made them."

Unknown, Source on enemies
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"The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows."

Socrates on death
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"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."

Roosevelt, Theodore on immigration
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"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life."

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

Roosevelt, Theodore on failure
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"The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom."

Sun Tzu on service   

"If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity."

Sun Tzu on army and navy   

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

Sun Tzu on war
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"Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack."

Sun Tzu on war
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"Therefore the skilful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field."

Sun Tzu on winners and winning   

"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 nothing."

Roosevelt, Theodore on decisions
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"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

Roosevelt, Theodore on education
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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 and defeats."

Roosevelt, Theodore on failure
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"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

Churchill, Winston on difficulties
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