Speech #630104551

It is the tendency. sir. to substitute the support of a paternal government for that individual selfdependence which settled. which built. which developed. which made our country. It was not in reliance upon any government that our fathers braved the dangers of the American forest. It was not in reliance upon any government that the stream of Immigrants passed over the Alleghenies and along the southern borders of the Lakes and peopled the Central West and along across the plains and mountains to the Pacific. We have a mighty commerce. indicated by the figures. the stupendous figures. that I have read. We have amazing material possessions. and the still more admirable and spiritual attainment of a hundred million people. foremost through the world in works of charity. of benevolence. of humanity. foremost in the world in its insistence upon opportunity for education to every child of every laborer. however humble. foremost in the world in its insistance upon the rights of individual liberty and the inde pendence of individual manhood.