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Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.
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Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.
What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.
Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.
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.
Do Something Now. If not you, who? If not here, where? If not now, when?
This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.
Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.
The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
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.