speak softly
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Speak softly and carry a big stick.
The world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.
Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.
We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.
There is a homely adage which runs, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far.' If the American nation will speak softly and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.
Speak softly and carry a big stick.