Remarks in Pittsfield, Massachusetts
09/02/1902
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The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary...
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
I speak of the men of the past partly that they may be honored by our praise of them, but more that they may serve as ex...
I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.