
Cut down one of these giants and you cannot fill its place.
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VA-RFormer governors

Cut down one of these giants and you cannot fill its place.

I believe in you, my countrymen; I believe in our people, and therefore I believe that they will dare to be great.

To pin those cards up there is as much out of place as if you tacked so many tin cans up there.

We must make it an even better one in the future.

I want to thank you very much for your courtesy in receiving me.

I have enjoyed every hour I have been in your beautiful and wonderful State.

I do not know of anything that bids better for our material well-being than the tree culture;

I want to see you play hard while you play, and when you work do not play at all.

It is a peculiar pleasure to me to address the children.

I wish to say what a great pleasure it has been to be here today.

Our aim must be to hand over to our children not an impoverished but an improved heritage.

It is the first time I ever was in your great and beautiful State; and but a few hours ago I saw for the first time the greatest of all the oceans.

Greatness only comes because the task to be done is great.

I am, as you gentlemen probably know, exceedingly interested in the question of forestry preservation.

If any one lies, if he has the habit of untruthfulness, you cannot deal with him, because there is nothing to depend on.

The qualities needed to solve aright the problems of today are the same qualities that were needed by the men who in 1861 found themselves confronted with the question of whether or not this country should remain all united and free, or…