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Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.""The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of Decency.
— Theodore Roosevelt
To account nothing of one's self, and to think always kindly and highly of others, this is great and perfect wisdom.
— Thomas a Kempis
If you wish to learn and appreciate something worth while, then love to be unknown and considered as nothing. Truly to know and despise self is the best and most perfect counsel. To think of oneself as nothing, and always to think well and highly of others is the best and most perfect wisdom.
— Thomas a Kempis
To account nothing of one's self, and to think always kindly and highly of others, this is great and perfect wisdom. Even
— Thomas a Kempis
To think of oneself as nothing, and always to think well and highly of others is the best and most perfect wisdom.
— Thomas a Kempis
Honor is due to God and to persons of great excellence as a sign of attestation of excellence already existing; not that honor makes them excellent.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
No man ought to despise or in any way injure another man without urgent cause: and, consequently, unless we have evident indications of a person's wickedness, we ought to deem him good, by interpreting for the best whatever is doubtful about him.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
With the tears a Land hath shed Their graves should ever be green.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Oh Lord, how heavy thy honor is to bear.
— Thomas Becket
In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.
— Joe Biden