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Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria.
Those who refuse to participate in politics usually end up being governed by their inferiors.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of the heart, and that is softness of the head.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt, Source: UnknownSaved by bluesfreak in education reason intelligence 4 months ago[save this] [permalink]The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt, Source: UnknownSaved by bluesfreak in america safety duty peace prosperity greed 4 months ago[save this] [permalink]Manhood
A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.
Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt, Source: http://www.plainsimple.org/journal/archives/2007/05/manhood.ph...Saved by bluesfreak in duty endurance courage manhood ideals 4 months ago[save this] [permalink]“It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshippers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.
They live in an artificial atmosphere of adulation and exultation which sooner or later impairs their judgement. They are in grave danger of becoming careless and arrogant.”
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country...
Every man who parrots the cry of ’stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ’so far as he serves the Republic’ takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent free man could take such an attitude.
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