I know that an audience composed as this audience is of men who either themselves fought or whose fathers fought in the Civil War, appreciate to the full the sound national policy (if I may use the vernacular) of never bluffing unless you mean to make good.
Roosevelt emphasizes the importance of sincerity and resolve in national policy, especially in military matters.
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Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday 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.
The American people by a great plurality have conferred upon you the highest honor in their gift.
I will accept the nomination for President if it is tendered to me, and I will adhere to this decision until the convention has expressed its preference.
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