Message to Congress
05/11/1902
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We must remember that we leave this country in the hands of the children of today.
I wish to say that I am stirred most deeply by this magnificent reception from what Mr. Rhodes has so well called the Magic City of the Sout...
Poor, indeed, would be the soul of the man who did not leave Montgomery a better American than when he came into it.
I believe in the future of America, because I believe that the average American man, and the average American woman, is sound at heart.