It speaks well for our nation that men and women should desire during their lives to devote the fortunes which they were able to acquire or to inherit because of our system of government, to objects so entirely worthy and so entirely admirable as the foundation of a great seat of learning such as this.
Remarks at Leland Stanford Jr. University in Palo Alto, California
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I absolutely agree with you that this matter is not one to be decided with any reference to the personal preferences or interests of any man, but purely from the standpoint of the interests of the people as a whole.
Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.
One of the chief principles for which I have stood, and for which I now stand, and which I have always endeavored and always shall endeavor to reduce to action, is the genuine rule of the people.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles.
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