We need good laws, we need honest and upright administration of the laws, but we need as the fundamental prerequisite for good government a high average standard of good citizenship in the men who make the laws and stand back of them.
Remarks in Asheville, North Carolina
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world.
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