I recommend that a law be passed allowing the Secretary of War, within a fixed period of time, say a year, to reinstate any of these soldiers whom he, after careful examination, finds to have been innocent and whom he finds to have done all in his power to help bring to justice the guilty.
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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Like all other good citizens, I accept the result with entire good humor and contentment.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles.
Practical equality of opportunity for all citizens, when we achieve it, will have two great results.
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