On the recordDecember 1, 1902
Ours is not the creed of the weakling and the coward; ours is the gospel of hope and of triumphant endeavor.
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presidency.ucsb.eduOurs is not the creed of the weakling and the coward; ours is the gospel of hope and of triumphant endeavor.
Second Annual Message
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A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.
I wish to say that the Progressive Party is making its appeal to all our fellow citizens without any regard to their creed or to their birthplace.
I will accept the nomination for President if it is tendered to me, and I will adhere to this decision until the convention has expressed its preference.
Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world.