Remarks in Bethel, Vermont
08/29/1902
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Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.
I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.
The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.
A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.