“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.”
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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
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.
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
