Special Message
02/04/1909
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We have grown to accept it as an axiomatic truth of our American life that the man is to be treated on his worth as a man.
I do not care very much for the coward or the moral weakling.
The future of this country depends upon the way in which the average man or the average woman in it does his or her duty.
Through you I wish, on behalf of the people of the United States, to thank His Majesty the German Emperor, and the people of Germany, for th...