Special Message
12/16/1906
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But in addition to dying for the nation you must be willing and anxious to live for the nation, or the nation will be badly off.
What we need most in this Republic is not special genius, not unusual brilliancy, but the honest and upright adherence on the part of the ma...
We shall succeed or fail in making this Republic what it should be made—I will go a little further than that—what it shall and must be made,...
It is not merely a great thing, but an indispensable thing that the nation's citizens should be ready and willing to die for it in time of n...