Letter to Anna Cabot Mills Lodge
11/09/1904
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Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.
France is one of these nations. For her to sink would be a loss to all the world.
Practical equality of opportunity for all citizens, when we achieve it, will have two great results.
I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.