It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

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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.

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What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.

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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

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Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.

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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.

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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

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Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.

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He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.

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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

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