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vision over the great industrial combinations of to 

 day. We have the power and we shall find out the 

 way. We shall not act hastily or recklessly ; but we 

 have firmly made up our minds that a solution, and 

 a right solution, shall be found, and found it will be. 

 No nation as great as ours can expect to escape 

 the penalty of greatness, for greatness does not come 

 without trouble and labor. There are problems 

 ahead of us at home and problems abroad, because 

 such problems are incident to the working out of a 

 great national career. We do not shrink from them. 

 Scant is our patience with those who preach the gos 

 pel of craven weakness. No nation under the sun 

 ever yet played a part worth playing if it feared its 

 fate overmuch if it did not have the courage to be 

 great. We of America, we, the sons of a nation yet 

 in the pride of its lusty youth, spurn the teachings 

 of distrust, spurn the creed of failure and despair. 

 We know that the future is ours if we have in us the 

 manhood to grasp it, and we enter the new century 

 girding our loins for the contest before us, re 

 joicing in the struggle, and resolute so to bear our 

 selves that the Nation's future shall even surpass 

 her glorious past. 



