Remarks in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
08/09/1905
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I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.
Practical equality of opportunity for all citizens, when we achieve it, will have two great results.
Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.
We must drive the special interests out of politics.