Our policy should be one of cordial friendship for all; and yet we should keep ever before our eyes the fact that we are ourselves a separate people, with our own ideals and standards, and destined, whether for better or for worse, to work out a wholly new national type.
Remarks at the 121st Annual Dinner of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in New York City
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