If I had permitted my failures or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.
After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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