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People can govern themselves only by practicing the virtues of moderation, self-restraint, of understanding that the simple homely virtues of honesty, courage and common sense are essential to the full development of citizenship in a free…
I believe in children. I like your stock, and I want to see it kept up.
The one all-essential thing in America, the thing that underlies everything else, is to have the average American a good man or a good woman; and if there is any one thing that I respect more than a good man, it is a good woman.
No American worthy of the name would fail to be stirred with patriotism as he comes into your magnificent State, into this magnificent city.
There is no other people of which history tells which, having passed through such a war as we have passed through, now, after forty years, finds not only that the flag which had been rent asunder is once again whole, without a seam, but…
Let each man strive to excel his fellows only by rendering substantial service to the community in which he lives.
The one thing this nation cannot afford to neglect is the education of the nation of the future.
The man or the woman who counts in life is the man or the woman who does not flinch from a task, but who does the task, who overcomes the obstacle.
Every dollar put into the education of either white man or black man, in head, in hand, and in heart, yields rich dividends to the entire community.
In the interest of humanity, of justice, and of self-protection, every white man in America, no matter where he lives, should try to help the negro to help himself.
It is character that determines the nation's progress in the long run.
You can't be as much inspired by anything I may say, as I have been inspired by what I have seen here.
It is not the President or the Senators or the Congressmen, or even the Governors, who make up our nation, who make the greatness of our nation.
I will be through now in just two minutes more.
The hope of advancement for the colored man in the South lies in his steady, commonsense effort to improve his moral and material condition.
What we need is the performance of duty, of the ordinary duty that the ordinary man or woman has to meet as he or she lives his or her life.
It is a liberal education in itself just to come here and see this great focus of civilization.