"I think we are warranted in contending..." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.
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“Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.”
“Let us live in the harness, striving mightily.”
“It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from government the privilege of doing business under corporate form... they shall do so under absolutely truthful representations... Great corporations exist only because they were created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.”
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“Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves.”
“The highest end of government is the culture of men.”
“Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated.”
More on Improvement
“The perfect is the enemy of the good.”
“If you know what's going on and know how society can be improved and happiness advanced, you tend to focus on how to get things done that will help health, safety, opportunity, justice, accountability of powerful institutions to the people they are supposed to serve.”
“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.”