Remarks in Sterling, Illinois
05/09/1905
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Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles.
Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing t...
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.