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No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

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The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and...more

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There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

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I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

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Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. No kind of life is worth leading if it is always an eas...more