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subject with a sufficiency of resolution, of honesty, 

 and of that hard common-sense which is one of the 

 most valuable, and not always one of the most com 

 mon, assets in any nation's greatness. The existing 

 laws will be fully enforced as they stand on the 

 statute books without regard to persons, and I think 

 good has already come from their enforcement. I 

 think, furthermore, that additional legislation should 

 be had and can be had, which will enable us to ac 

 complish much more along the same lines. No man 

 can promise a perfect solution, at least in the imme 

 diate future. But something has already been done, 

 and much more can be done if our people temper 

 ately and determinedly will that it shall be done. 



In conclusion let me add one word. While we 

 are not to be excused if we fail to do whatever is 

 possible through the agency of government, we must 

 keep ever in mind that no action of the govern 

 ment, no action by combination among ourselves, can 

 take the place of the individual qualities to which 

 in the long run every man must owe the success he 

 can make of life. There never has been devised, 

 and there never will be devised, any law which will 

 enable a man to succeed save by the exercise of 

 those qualities which have always been the prerequi 

 sites of success the qualities of hard work, of keen 

 intelligence, of unflinching will. Such action can 

 supplement those qualities but it can not take their 

 place. No action by the State can do more than 

 supplement the initiative of the individual; and or 

 dinarily the action of the State can do no more than 



