Remarks in Northfield, Massachusetts
08/31/1902
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Insistence upon the impossible means delay in achieving the possible.
Ours is not the creed of the weakling and the coward; ours is the gospel of hope and of triumphant endeavor.
It is hereby ordered that the southeast quarter of section 31, township 27 north, range 10 east, Mount Diablo meridian, California, be, and ...
Most certainly I do not claim all the good that has befallen us during the past six years as due solely to any human policy.