Address to the Texas State Legislature in Austin
04/05/1905
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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...
The American people by a great plurality have conferred upon you the highest honor in their gift.
I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.
One of the chief principles for which I have stood, and for which I now stand, and which I have always endeavored and al...