ISBN: 9781154021226

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... first of sovereigns and the most divine of priests. AT CONNELLSVILLE, PA., JUNE i, 1907 I greet you all. Remember always that the character of the Nation ultimately depends upon the characters of the individual citizens who make it up, and that you can tell fairly well whether a man is a good citizen by whether he is the kind of man who makes a good neighbor, a good friend. Above all, remember that your first duty in being a good neighbor is to be a good neighbor to those who are nearest to you--be a good neighbor to your own wife and children. I have mighty little use for the man who is always declaiming in favor of an eight-hour day for himself who does not think anything at all of having a sixteen-hour day for his wife. Give fair play all around; and remember that the woman needs fair play even more than the man. I believe in an eight-hour day for the man, but I want to see the man''s wife given as good a show as the man. AT THE GEORGIA STATE BUILDING, JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION, JUNE 10, 1907 I can not express how deeply touched I am at the action of the State of Georgia, my mother''s State, the State from which I draw half the blood in my veins, in erecting as the Georgia State House at the Jamestown Exposition a replica of my grandfather''s house at Roswell, Ga.; the house in which my mother passed her youth and where she was married to my father. It is an act of gractous courtesy and consideration which I very deeply appreciate; and through the Governor and other representatives of Georgia I desire from my heart to thank all her citizens. Georgia''s history is unique, for she alone among the original thirteen colonies and the subsequent new States added thereto, was founded with a consciously benevolent purpose, with the deliberate intent to... Theodore Roosevelt, Books, History, Presidential addresses and state papers Volume 18 Books>History The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 18; Original Publisher: The Review of Reviews Company; Publication date: 1910; Subjects: United States; Biography<