Do not threaten; do not bluster; above all, do not insult other people; but when you make up your mind that the situation is such as to require you to take a given position, take it and keep it, and have it definitely understood that what you say you are ready to make good.
Remarks in Tacoma, Washington
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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 examples for the future.
I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.
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