"The difficulty that contestation must be done in the name of an authority is resolved this: I contest in the name of contestation what experience itself is."

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If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world.

— Theodore Roosevelt