Remarks in Durant
04/04/1905
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The one all-essential thing in America, the thing that underlies everything else, is to have the average American a good man or a good woman...
We must remember that we leave this country in the hands of the children of today.
It is not the President or the Senators or the Congressmen, or even the Governors, who make up our nation, who make the greatness of our nat...
It is character that determines the nation's progress in the long run.