All that the law can do is to try to secure a fair deal, to try to give each man a chance to show the stuff that is in him; and if the stuff is not in him you cannot get it out of him because it is not there.
Remarks in Glenn's Ferry, Idaho
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The interests of the nation are involved in the welfare of this army of children no less than in our great material affairs.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
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