The best executive is one who has sense
enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self
restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
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The best executive is one who has sense
enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self
restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president...
is morally treasonable to the American public.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car;
but if he has a university education,
he may steal the whole railroad.
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned
an invisible government owing no allegiance
and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
We can have no '50 50' allegiance in this country.
Either a man is an American and nothing else,
or he is not an American at all.
Every immigrant who comes here should be required
within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though checkered by failure...
than to rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy nor suffer much,
because they live in a gray twilight
that knows not victory nor defeat.
If you could kick the person in the pants
responsible for most of your trouble,
you wouldn't sit for a month.