Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

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Theodore Roosevelt
26th US president (1858-1919). At 42 the youngest to take office, he led the Progressive Era, broke trusts, founded the national park system, mediated the 1905 Russo-Japanese peace and won the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize.
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I see, and say nothing.
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
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