You can frame laws and have a good constitution, and after all has been done that you can do in that way you have accomplished simply the creating of conditions which render it possible to have good citizenship.
Remarks in Newport, New Hampshire
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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.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles.
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