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

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

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Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

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The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

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Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

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

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

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A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

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Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

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If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: October 27th, 1858

Died: January 6th, 1919

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