When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
From Theodore Roosevelt
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
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