Remarks in Joliet, Illinois
06/02/1903
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I have been astonished and delighted with your extraordinary success in so many different types of industries—mining, agriculture of so many...
It has always seemed to me that we should profit by the lessons that they taught, not merely in war, but in peace.
If a man does his duty he is a good citizen and we should be proud of him.
The future of the State depends not upon what is material, for that you can produce if you have the heart, the hand, and the head to do it; ...