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"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."

"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."

"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."

"Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible."

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."

"There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one."

"Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old."

"He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine."

"If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf."

"The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person."

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."
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"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

"Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality."

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day."

"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."

"Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."

"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."

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