05/09/1905
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"I am deeply touched by the beautiful gift you have given me."
"I believe in children"
"None of the men of my own generation or of this younger, stand as close to me as you of my regiment, as the men of the Spanish War do,"
"I should be sorry indeed if there were not societies like those of the Native Sons and Native Daughters in this State to keep alive the sense of historic continuity with the State's mighty past."