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new spangled ore, Flames in the forehead of the morning sky." I rejoice in an occasion like this which draws the attention of the world to topics which illustrate the union of art with literature and of literature with science, because you have a hard race to run, you have a severe competition against the attraction of... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.296 | 0.878 | ["philosophy"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.927281 | [
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e to mankind, in maintaining the principle that no progress can be real which is not equable, which is not pro [Pg 51] portionate, which does not develop all the faculties belonging to our nature. If a great increase of wealth in a country takes place, and with that increase of wealth a powerful stimulus to the inventi... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.377 | 0.87 | ["economy", "philosophy"] | 470 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.927321 | [
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d development which is but one side of deformity. I hope we shall have no one-sided development. One mode of avoiding it is to teach the doctrine of that sisterhood you have asserted to-day, and confident I am that the good wishes you have exprest on behalf of literature will be re-echoed in behalf of art wherever men ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.884 | ["communication", "philosophy"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.927352 | [
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and mine that you must accept my services as your presiding officer of the day in the place of your retiring president. I shall not be believed if I say how unwillingly it is that for the second time I find myself in this trying position; called upon to fill, as I best may, the place of one whose presence and bearing, ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.81 | 0.728 | ["family", "education"] | 502 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.927382 | [
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guide your councils and to grace your festivals. The [Pg 53] name of Winthrop has been so long associated with the State and with the college that to sit under his mild empire is like resting beneath one of these wide-branching elms the breadth of whose shade is only a measure of the hold its roots have taken in the so... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.583 | 0.86 | ["family", "diplomacy"] | 425 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.927418 | [
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s our common mother, have come together in peace. And surely there never was a time when we more needed a brief respite in some chosen place of refuge, some unviolated sanctuary, from the cares and anxieties of our daily existence than at this very hour. Our life has grown haggard with excitement. The rattle of drums, ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.771 | 0.88 | ["diplomacy", "family"] | 507 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.927456 | [
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sleeping and waking, for two long years and more. How few of us have not [Pg 54] trembled and shuddered with fear over and over again for those whom we love. Alas! how many that hear me have mourned over the lost—lost to earthly sight, but immortal in our love and their country's honor! We need a little breathing-space... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.851 | 0.894 | ["ethics", "faith_spirituality"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.927486 | [
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God's good time, and after his wise purpose is fulfilled, the fair angel who has so long left us shall lay her hand upon the leaping heart of this embattled nation and whisper, "Peace! be still!" Here of all places in the world we may best hope to find the peace we seek for. It seems as if nothing were left undisturbed... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.696 | 0.872 | ["diplomacy", "war_conflict", "faith_spirituality"] | 457 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.927516 | [
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ings, with the trees in which they are embowered. The old [Pg 55] State House is filled with those that sell oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money. The Hancock house, the umbilical scar of the cord that held our city to the past, is vanishing like a dimple from the water. But Massachusetts, venerable old ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.375 | 0.884 | [] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.927547 | [
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lcome its hundredth set of inmates; Holden Chapel, with the skulls of its Doric frieze and the unpunishable cherub over its portals, looks serenely to the sunsets; Harvard, within whose ancient walls we are gathered, and whose morning bell has murdered sleep for so many generations of drowsy adolescents, is at its post... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.83 | 0.714 | ["family"] | 504 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.927577 | [
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6] we were boys,—when our grandfathers were boys. Let not the rash hand of innovation violate their sanctities, for the cement that knits these walls is no vulgar mortar, but is tempered with associations and memories which are stronger than the parts they bind together! We meet on this auspicious morning forgetting al... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.88 | ["innovation", "family"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.927608 | [
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t the door, and we put on the court dress of our gracious Queen's own ordering, the academic robe, such as we wore in those bygone years scattered along the seven last decades. We are not forgetful of the honors which our fellow students have won since they received their college "parts,"—their orations, dissertations,... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.843 | 0.846 | ["communication", "ethics", "rhetoric"] | 430 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.927639 | [
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o-day we have no rank; we are all first scholars. The hero in his laurels sits next to the divine rustling in the dry garlands of his doctorate. The poet in his crown of bays, the critic, in his wreath of ivy, clasp each other's hands, members of the same happy family. This is the birthday feast for every one of us who... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.848 | 0.88 | ["faith_spirituality", "family"] | 481 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.927667 | [
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mas, no distinctions but our years of graduation. This is the republic carried into the university; all of us are born equal into this great fraternity. Welcome, then, welcome, all of you, dear brothers, to this our joyous meeting! We must, we will call it joyous, tho it comes with many saddening thoughts. Our last tri... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.85 | 0.878 | ["family", "education", "governance"] | 502 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.927702 | [
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head to our ancient household of the university. As I look to-day in vain for his stately presence and kindly smile, I am reminded of the touching words spoken by an early president of the university in the remembrance of a loss not unlike our own. It was at the commencement exercises of the year 1678 that the Reverend... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.878 | ["education", "family"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.927740 | [
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quam me perorantem, in comitiis, conspectus ejus, multo jucundissimus, recrearit et refecerit. At non comparet hodie Shepardus in his comitiis; oculos huc illuc torqueo; quocumque tamen inciderint, Platonem meum intanta virorum illustrium frequentia requirunt; nusquam amicum et pernecessarium [Pg 59] meum in hac solenn... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.396 | 0.844 | [] | 510 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.927772 | [
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e by since these words were uttered by the fourth president of the college, which I repeat as no unfitting tribute to the memory of the twentieth, the rare and fully ripened scholar who was suddenly ravished from us as some richly freighted argosy that just reaches her harbor and sinks under a cloudless sky with all he... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.619 | 0.736 | ["war_conflict"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.927810 | [
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like this over every beloved name which the day recalls to our memory. Many of the children whom our mother had trained to arts have given the freshness of their youth or the strength of their manhood to arms. How strangely [Pg 60] frequent in our recent record is the sign interpreted by the words " E vivis cesserunt s... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.81 | 0.88 | ["family", "war_conflict", "diplomacy", "education"] | 497 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.927857 | [
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ng list of the martyr-children of our university. I can not speak their eulogy, for there are no phrases in my vocabulary fit to enshrine the memory of the Christian warrior,—of him— "Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed, miserable train, Turns his necessity to glorious gain—" "Who, whether pra... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.732 | ["war_conflict", "family", "education"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.927893 | [
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ble name, Finds comfort in himself and in his cause; And while the mortal mist is gathering, draws His breath in confidence of Heaven's applause." [Pg 61] Yet again, O brothers! this is not the hour for sorrow. Month after month until the months became years we have cried to those who stood upon our walls: "Watchmen, w... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.848 | 0.87 | [] | 475 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.927925 | [
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e night has gathered round us darker than before. At last—glory be to God in the highest!—at last we ask no more tidings of the watchmen, for over both horizons east and west bursts forth in one overflowing tide of radiance the ruddy light of victory! We have no parties here to-day, but is there one breast that does no... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.805 | 0.866 | ["governance", "war_conflict", "faith_spirituality"] | 448 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.927962 | [
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etreating foes to the banks of the angry Potomac? Is there one heart that does not thrill in answer to the drum-beat that rings all over the world as the army of the west, on the morning of the nation's birth, swarms over the silent, sullen earthworks of captured Vicksburg,—to the reveille that calls up our Northern re... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.791 | 0.882 | ["war_conflict"] | 510 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.927996 | [
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beside all, above all, we are American citizens. And now that hope dawns upon our land—nay, bursts upon it in a flood of glory,—shall we not feel its splendors reflected upon our peaceful gathering, peaceful in spite of those disturbances which the strong hand of our citizen-soldiery has already strangled? [Pg 63] Welc... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.842 | 0.836 | ["war_conflict", "diplomacy", "ethics", "social_justice"] | 415 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.928026 | [
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ho have fought for your and our rights and honor! Welcome, soldierly scholars who are ready to fight whenever your country calls for your services! Welcome, ye who preach courage as well as meekness, remembering that the Prince of Peace came also bringing a sword! Welcome, ye who make and who interpret the statutes whi... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.884 | ["war_conflict", "diplomacy", "ethics", "social_justice"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.928064 | [
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ffering and the dying with every aid of art and the tender accents of compassion! Welcome, ye who are training the generous youths to whom our country looks as its future guardians! Welcome, ye quiet scholars who in your lonely studies are unconsciously shaping the thought which [Pg 64] law shall forge into its shield ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.88 | ["ethics", "governance", "war_conflict"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.928098 | [
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our ancient and venerated institution, to you we offer our most cordial welcome with all our hopes and prayers for your long and happy administration. I give you, brothers, "The association of the Alumni"; the children of our common mother recognize the man of her choice as their new father, and would like to hear him ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.783 | 0.85 | ["family", "communication", "decision_making", "faith_spirituality"] | 434 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.928133 | [
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ed at an Alumni Dinner, Cambridge, July 16, 1863. [Pg 65] GOOD WILL TO AMERICA [2] BY SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT Gentlemen:—Small as are the pretensions which, on any account, I can have to present myself to the attention of this remarkable assemblage, I have had no hesitation in answering the call which is just been made up... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.738 | [] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.928163 | [
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s meeting be offered to the chairman for his presidence over us to-day. Every one who admires Mr. Garrison for the qualities on account of which we have met to do him honor on this occasion, must feel that there is a [Pg 66] singular appropriateness in the selection of the person who has presided here to-day. No one ca... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.806 | 0.862 | ["ethics", "career"] | 456 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.928196 | [
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ired, and far greater than they could have hoped. There is no cause with which the name of Mr. Bright has been associated which has not sooner or later won its way to victory. I shall not go over the ground which [Pg 67] has been so well dealt with by those who have preceded me. But tho there have been many abler inter... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.902 | ["war_conflict"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.928229 | [
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favor of the perpetual amity of England and America. It seems to me that with nations, as well as with individuals, greatness of character depends chiefly on the degree in which they are capable of rising above thee low, narrow, paltry interests of the present, and of looking forward with hope and with faith into the d... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.788 | 0.876 | ["war_conflict", "faith_spirituality"] | 480 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.928264 | [
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stion—where is to be found the future of mankind? Who that can forecast the fortunes of the ages to come will not answer—it is in that great nation which [Pg 68] has sprung from our loins, which is flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone. The stratifications of history are full of the skeletons of ruined kingdoms and o... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.743 | 0.86 | [] | 434 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.928298 | [
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zation of Greece, the universal dominion of Rome? They founded empires of conquest, which have perished by the sword by which they rose. Is it to be with us as with them? I hope not—I think not. But if the day of our decline should arise, we shall at least have the consolation of knowing that we have left behind us a r... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.806 | 0.872 | ["philosophy"] | 458 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.928330 | [
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it becomes us both to remember and to think upon. And, therefore, it is that, as our distinguished guest, with innate modesty, has already said, this is not a mere personal festivity—this is no occasional compliment. We see in it a deeper and wider significance. We celebrate in it the union of two nations. While I ask ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.824 | 0.868 | [] | 444 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.928359 | [
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of our guest a boon which he will not refuse us. We have a great message to send, and we have here a messenger worthy to bear it. I will ask Mr. Garrison to carry back to his home the prayer of this assembly and of this nation that there may be forever and forever peace and good will between [Pg 70] England and America... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.802 | 0.868 | ["diplomacy", "social_justice", "faith_spirituality", "family"] | 420 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.928393 | [
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ng less than the evangel of liberty and of peace. And who more worthy to preside over such a gospel than the chairman to whom I ask you to return your thanks to-day? I beg to propose that the thanks of the meeting be given to Mr. Bright. FOOTNOTE: [2] Speech at breakfast held in London in honor of Mr. Garrison, June 29... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.894 | ["ethics", "diplomacy", "social_justice", "rhetoric"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.928428 | [
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ood fortune to enjoy this famous anniversary festival. Tho often honored by your most tempting invitation, and longing to celebrate the day in this goodly company of which all have heard so much, I could never excuse myself from duties in another place. If now I yield to well-known attractions, and journey from Washing... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.878 | ["ethics"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.928461 | [
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I am bound by the friendship of many years in Boston, in New York, and in a foreign land. It is [Pg 72] much to be a brother of New England, but it is more to be a friend, and this tie I have pleasure in confessing to-night. It is with much doubt and humility that I venture to answer for the Senate of the United States... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.816 | ["governance", "diplomacy"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.928494 | [
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le Senator who would not be glad of a seat at this generous banquet. What is the Senate? It is a component part of the National Government. But we celebrate to-day more than any component part of any government. We celebrate an epoch in the history of mankind—not only never to be forgotten, but to grow in grandeur as t... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.791 | 0.89 | ["governance"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.928526 | [
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hand, and the colony was incarnadined with blood. On the day we celebrate, the sun for the first time in his course looked down upon a different scene, begun and continued under a different inspiration. A few conscientious Englishmen, in obedience to the monitor within, and | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18323/18323-h/18323-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Model Speeches For Practise, by Grenville Kleiser | gutenberg.org | 0.377 | 0.792 | ["motivation"] | 274 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:41.928564 | [
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North, when the boundary of the North is the St. Lawrence and the boundary of the South the Rio Grande, and Mason and Dixon's Line is forever blotted from the map of our beloved country, and the nation has grown color-blind to blue and gray, it is with peculiar pleasure that we welcome here to-night a distinguished and... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.58 | 0.738 | ["governance"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.240072 | [
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so beautifully and so truly said, 'If they bore themselves haughtily in their hour of triumph, they bore defeat with splendid fortitude. Their entire system crumbled and fell around them in ruins; they remained unmoved; they suffered the greatest humiliation of modern times; their slaves were put over them; they reconq... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.619 | 0.866 | ["war_conflict"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.240102 | [
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next speaker to you, for I doubt not that you all belong to the multitude of mourners, who have wept real tears with black Sam and Miss Annie beside the coffin of Marse Chan; but I will call upon our friend, Thomas Nelson Page, to respond to the next toast, 'The Debt Each Part of the Country Owes the Other.'"] Ladies a... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.808 | 0.886 | [] | 483 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.240129 | [
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sounded to me, as he quoted it, very good indeed. At any rate, it is very true, and, perhaps, that it is true is the reason that you have done me the honor to invite me here to-night. I have been sitting for an hour in such a state of tremulousness and fright, facing this audience I was to address, that the ideas I had... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.85 | 0.902 | ["communication", "ethics", "philosophy"] | 504 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.240159 | [
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ite [Pg 862] as good order as I should like them. The gift of after-dinner speaking is one I heard illustrated the other day very well at a dinner at which my friend, Judge Bartlett and I were present. A gentleman told a story of an English bishop travelling in a third-class railway carriage with an individual who was ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.882 | ["communication"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.240188 | [
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to swear in that extraordinary manner?" And he said, "It can't be learned, it is a gift." After-dinner speaking is a gift I have often envied, ladies and gentlemen, and as I have not it I can only promise to tell you what I really think on the subject which I am here to speak about to-night. I feel that in inviting me ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.902 | ["communication", "ethics"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.240210 | [
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hink and what those, I in a manner represent, think; and I do not know that our views would differ very materially from yours. I could not, if I would, undertake merely to be entertaining to you. I am very much in that respect like an old darky I knew of down in Virginia, who on one occasion was given by his mistress s... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.85 | 0.89 | [] | 503 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.240231 | [
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and Dixon's Line, but still was not very strong. When he got through she said, "How did you like that?" He said, "If you gwine to gimme foam, gimme foam; but if you gwine to gimme dram, gimme dram." You do not want from me syllabub I am sure. When I came here I had no idea that I was to address so imposing an assemblag... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.79 | 0.898 | ["family", "communication"] | 505 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.240254 | [
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assembly with their presence as they do to-night. When a youngster, I was told by an old gentleman, before the day of the unhappy stenographer, "You can go out in the world all right if you have four speeches. If you have one for the Fourth of July, one for a tournament address, one to answer the toast to 'Woman,' and ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.801 | 0.856 | ["rhetoric", "communication"] | 412 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.240280 | [
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on the blood both of Virginia and of New England. Her mother was a Virginian and her father a gentleman from New Hampshire; consequently, as I have two young daughters, who always declare themselves Yankees, I am here to speak with due gratitude to both sections, and with strong feeling for both sections to-night. It s... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.851 | 0.884 | ["family", "interview"] | 506 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.240327 | [
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en knows I hope there may never be but one again. In the nature of things it was impossible at first that there could be only one, but of late the one great wall that divided them has passed away, and, standing here facing you to-night, I feel precisely as I should if I were standing facing an audience of my own dear V... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.809 | 0.888 | ["strategy", "war_conflict", "philosophy"] | 487 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.240352 | [
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he Union first at the time of the war with Spain. It is not true; the South became reconciled and showed its loyalty to the Union after Appomattox. When Lee laid down his arms and accepted the terms of the magnanimous Grant, the South rallied behind him, and he went to teach peace and amity and union to his scholars at... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.789 | 0.884 | ["war_conflict", "ethics", "diplomacy", "education"] | 488 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.240381 | [
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s the doubly-honored names of Washington and Lee. He taught us only fealty to the Union and to the flag of the Union. He taught us also that we should never forget the flag under which our fathers fought during the Civil War. With it are embalmed the tears, the holy memories that cluster thick around our hearts, and I ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.83 | 0.884 | ["ethics", "family", "war_conflict", "faith_spirituality"] | 496 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.240411 | [
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but I want you to know how we feel at the South. Mason and Dixon's Line is laid down on no map and no longer laid down in the memory of either side. The Mason and Dixon's Line of to-day is that which circumscribes this great Union, with all its advantages, all its hopes, and all its aspirations. This is the Mason and D... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.829 | 0.892 | [] | 488 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.240467 | [
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hese two sections do owe—each other a great deal. But I will tell you what we owe each other more, perhaps, than anything else. When this country was settled for us it was with sparsely scattered settlements, ranging along the Atlantic coast. When the first outside danger threatened it, the two sections immediately dre... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.851 | 0.874 | ["philosophy"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.240498 | [
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thin that time, or double or quadruple that time. It is such a condition of life as never existed in any other country. From Mount Desert to the Golden Gate, yes, from the islands which Columbus saw, thinking he had found the East Indies, to the East Indies themselves, where, [Pg 865] even as I speak, the American flag... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.89 | ["war_conflict", "diplomacy", "economy"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.240588 | [
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he bugle greater than Rome was ever able to summon behind her golden eagles. We are right to call it a century of achievement. We pride ourselves upon it. Now, who achieved that? Not we, personally; our fathers achieved it; your fathers and my fathers; your fathers, when they left England and set their prows westward a... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.826 | 0.864 | ["family", "governance", "war_conflict"] | 460 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.240618 | [
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it was not we, but our fathers who achieved that. Our fathers "left us an heritage, and it has brought forth abundantly." I say this to draw clearly the line between mere material wealth and that which is the real wealth and welfare of a people. We are rich, but our fathers were poor. How did they achieve it? Not by th... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.894 | ["economy", "family", "rhetoric"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.240681 | [
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descendant of a New Englander what he would say was the best thing that the fathers had left to the country. He thought for a second and made me a wise answer. He said, "I think it was their character." That is indeed the heritage they left us; they left us their character. Wealth will not preserve that which they left... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.807 | 0.874 | ["economy", "networking", "diplomacy", "faith_spirituality", "family"] | 470 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.240711 | [
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e spirit will preserve it, nothing but character. The whole story of civilization speaks this truth with trumpet voice. One nation rises upon the ruins of another nation. It is when Samson lies in the lap of Delilah that the enemy steals upon him and ensnares him and binds him. It was when the great Assyrian king walke... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.771 | 0.892 | ["ethics", "faith_spirituality", "philosophy"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.240740 | [
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seems to me to-day to be the great torch-bearer for this and for the next coming time. Each nation that has borne the torch of civilization has followed some path peculiarly its own. Egyptian, Syrian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Frank, all had their ideal of power—order and progress directed under Supreme authority, main [P... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.791 | 0.87 | ["social_justice"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.240856 | [
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I believe, exists, deep-rooted among our people. Sometimes when I read accounts of vice here and there eating into the heart of the people, I feel inclined to be pessimistic; but when I come face to face with the American and see him in his life, as he truly is; when I reflect on the great body of our people that stret... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.742 | ["ethics", "family", "philosophy"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.240980 | [
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by the exercise of our utmost courage and wisdom. I do not want anything I say here this evening to [Pg 868] have in the least degree the complexion of a political talk. I am like a friend of mine down in Virginia who told me that he never could talk politics with a man, "Because," he says, "I am that sort of a blanked... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.808 | 0.884 | ["education"] | 478 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241053 | [
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sing this matter in any political sense whatever. But I feel quite sure, though I see many men whose opinion I respect who disagree with me, that yet this great people of ours is strong enough to carry through any obligations whatever which they may take up. I have no fear, however it may cause trouble, or may create d... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.894 | [] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241084 | [
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f the people of the South from whom I come, but I have no question whatever that we possess the strength to maintain any obligation that we assume, and I feel sure that in the coming years this great race of ours will have shown strength and resolution enough not only to preserve itself, to preserve the great heritage ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.806 | 0.726 | ["social_justice", "family"] | 464 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241129 | [
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and, if necessary, to the nations beyond the sea. Of one thing I am very sure, that had our fathers been called on to solve this problem they would have solved it, not in the light of a hundred years ago, but in that of the present. Among the problems that confront us we have one great problem, already alluded to indir... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.827 | 0.888 | ["family"] | 473 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241163 | [
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k, it is a problem that vitally concerns you too. There is no problem that can greatly affect one section of this country that does not affect the other. As I came into your city to-night I saw your great structure across the river here, binding the two great cities together and making them one, and I remember that as ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.847 | 0.878 | [] | 466 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241191 | [
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ere is one that with us overshadows all the rest. The great Anglo-Saxon race in the section of this country containing the inhabitants of the South understands better than you do the gravity of that great problem which confronts them. It is "like the pestilence that walketh in darkness, the destruction that wasteth at ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.579 | 0.884 | [] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241273 | [
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outbreaks growing out of some phases of it that astound, and shock, and stun you, as they do ourselves. But believe me, the Anglo-Saxon race has set itself, with all its power, to face it and to overcome it; to solve it in some way, and in the wisest way. Have patience and it will be solved. Time is the great solver, a... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.842 | 0.868 | [] | 424 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241302 | [
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s would have more weight with you than they have. I cannot, perhaps, expect you even to understand entirely what I am saying to you, but when I tell you that it is the greatest problem that at present faces the South, as it has done for the last thirty years, I am saying it to you as an American—one of yourselves, who ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.851 | 0.654 | ["faith_spirituality", "philosophy"] | 505 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241331 | [
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he problem and meet the dangers that are therein. Those dangers are not only for us, they are for you. The key to it, in our opinion, is that to which I alluded but just now; that for the present, at least, the white race is the torch-bearer of civilization, not only for itself, but for the world. There is only one thi... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.851 | 0.902 | [] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241357 | [
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hes, knowing the peril, had thrown themselves, in the dim dawn of the morning, across the newly made breach, and when they found the colored troops rushing in they nerved themselves anew to the contest. I may say to you calmly, after thirty odd years of experience with the negro race, that it was well for the town of P... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.375 | 0.886 | ["education"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241384 | [
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ushing columns and hold them till knowledge of the attack spread and succor arrived. You may not agree with me that what happened at that time is happening now; but I tell you as one who has stood on the line, that we are not only holding it for ourselves, but for you. It is the white people of the South that are stand... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.85 | 0.89 | ["education"] | 500 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241414 | [
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n to blame; they have been misdirected, deceived. Not only the welfare of the white people of the South and the welfare of the white people of the North, but the salvation of the negro himself depends upon the carrying out, in a wise way, the things which I have outlined, very imperfectly, I know. When that shall be do... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.791 | 0.886 | [] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241494 | [
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en its curse in the past, devoting them to the better arts of peace, and then from that race will come intellects and intellectual achievements which may challenge and demand the recognition of the world. Then those intellects will come up and take their places and be accorded their places, not only willingly, but glad... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.62 | 0.88 | ["crisis", "diplomacy"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241523 | [
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ssist them in it; their worst enemy could do them no greater injury than to deflect them from it. This is a very imperfect way, I am aware, ladies and gentlemen, of presenting the matter, but I hope you will accept it and believe that I am sincere in it. Accept my assurance of the great pleasure I have had in coming he... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.851 | 0.894 | ["war_conflict"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241551 | [
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city as "The round-house of New York," in which, he said, the machinery that drove New York and moved the world was cleaned and polished every night. I am glad to be here, where you have that greatest of American achievements, the American home and the American spirit. May it always be kept pure and always at only the ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.625 | 0.86 | ["governance", "faith_spirituality", "family", "rhetoric"] | 454 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241581 | [
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ALMER THE LAWYER IN POLITICS [Speech of George M. Palmer at the annual banquet of the New York State Bar Association, given in Albany, January 18, 1899. President Walter S. Logan introduced Mr. Palmer in the following words: "The next speaker is the Hon. George M. Palmer, minority leader of the Assembly. [Applause.] He... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.645 | 0.71 | ["governance", "leadership", "rhetoric"] | 447 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241613 | [
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ou that his politics are of the right kind."] Mr. President And Members of the Bar Association of the State of New York :—Through the generous impulse of your committee I enjoy the privilege of responding to this toast. I was informed some four weeks ago I would be called upon, the committee thinking I would require th... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.803 | 0.852 | ["communication", "philosophy"] | 428 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241641 | [
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since in preparing the address for this occasion. "The Lawyer in Politics." The first inquiry of the lawyer and politician is, "What is there in it?" [Laughter.] I mean by that, the lawyer says in a dignified way, "What principle is involved, and how can I best serve my client, always forgetting myself?" The politician... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.848 | 0.87 | ["governance", "communication"] | 476 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241666 | [
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"What is there in it for the people I represent? How can I best serve them?" You may inquire what is there in this toast for you. Not very much. You remember the distinguished jurist who once sat down to a course dinner similar to this. He had been waited on by one servant during two courses. He had had the soup. Anoth... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.851 | 0.748 | [] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241686 | [
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icken soup, but the chicken proved an alibi." [Laughter.] A [Pg 873] distinguished judge in this presence said he was much indebted to the Bar. I am very glad to say that the lawyer in politics formed a resolution on the first day of last January to square himself with the Bar, and he now stands without any debt. [Laug... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18422/18422-h/18422-h.htm | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern Eloquence, Volume III: After Dinner Speeches, P-Z | gutenberg.org | 0.824 | 0.86 | ["governance", "philosophy"] | 443 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.241708 | [
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