It is a proud and responsible privilege to be citizens of this great self-governing nation; and each of us needs to keep steadily before his eyes the fact that he is wholly unfit to take part in the work of governing others unless he can first govern himself.
Remarks Before the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America and the United Mine Workers of America at Wilkes-Barre,...
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