No President of the United States, no good American, proud of his country, could enter this capitol and stand in this hall without feeling a certain thrill of pride in his citizenship, and in the history of the country's past.
Address to the Texas State Legislature in Austin
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The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles.
Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.
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