On the recordAugust 25, 1902
If government cannot go on it is not government.
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Remarks in Portland, Maine
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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.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary.