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The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn.

The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven a complete social failure, the dullest must begin to question its right to exist.

On this bit of the wild world's stage are theatrical lightning changes of scenes—changes that on most mountains would require ten thousand years or more. It is a place of strange and fleeting landscapes; the earth is ever changing like the sky.

The forest is an eternal mediator between winds and gravity in their never-ending struggle for the possession of the waters.

In my opinion no man has had a more profitable difficulty than you have had, if you choose to make use of it as an athlete would deal with a young antagonist.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

The movement of the floes was beyond all human control, and there was nothing to be gained by allowing one's mind to struggle with the problems of the future, though it was hard to avoid anxiety at times.

At any rate, we were on the move at last, and if dangers and difficulties lay ahead we could meet and overcome them.

One should always follow a denial with an affirmation.

The object of the game of life is to see clearly one’s good and to obliterate all mental pictures of evil.

Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.

The robbers of time are the past and the future.

Let it be impressed upon all hearts that, beautiful as our fabric is, no earthly power or wisdom could ever reunite its broken fragments.

In place of the suspicious watchfulness and the more or less open warfare which characterizes the ordinary types of management, there is universally friendly cooperation between the management and the men.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.

Adventures are to those to whom they are most unexpected

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

There are times when the future seems thick as a fog; you sit and wait, hoping the mists will lift and reveal the right path.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.

Theirs is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part. It could go on and on and on, or someone must write the end to it.

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life.

One of the chief virtues of a democracy, however, is that its defects are always visible and under democratic processes can be pointed out and corrected.