Special Message to Congress on Labor
03/24/1908
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France is one of these nations. For her to sink would be a loss to all the world.
A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.
I am absorbed in the success of that movement.
I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.