05/18/1903
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"I am absolutely confident of the future, not only of this State, but of our entire country."
"We don't know the cost, but we know that it will be more than repaid ten times over by the result."
"I try to practice it myself, too."
"It is because of what they did that the President of the United States can travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Rio Grande to the forty-ninth parallel and be at home everywhere."