Let us see to it that, while we take advantage of every gentler and more humanizing tendency of the age, we yet preserve the iron quality which made our forefathers and predecessors fit to do the deeds they did.
Advocating for a balance between modern progress and traditional virtues, this urges the preservation of the strength and resilience of past generations.
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The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride, he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own.
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 care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.
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