Our currency laws have been recently improved by specific declarations intended to secure permanency of values; but this does not imply that these laws may not be further improved and strengthened.
Remarks in Quincy, Illinois
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The board of engineers who signed this report are of all the men in their profession, within or without the United States, the men who are on the whole best qualified to pass upon these very questions which they examined.
Our country—this great Republic—means nothing unless it means the triumph of a real democracy, the triumph of popular government, and, in the long run, of an economic system under which each man shall be guaranteed the opportunity to show the best that there is in him.
France is one of these nations. For her to sink would be a loss to all the world.
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.
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