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Presidential addresses and state papers, Volume 4 (of 7)

Chapter 19: REMARKS IN PRESENTING THE PATTERSON MEMORIAL CUP TO MR. JOHN CHARLES McNEILL, IN THE SENATE CHAMBER, RALEIGH, N. C., OCTOBER 19, 1905
By Theodore Roosevelt
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A collection of addresses and official papers presented across a series of public appearances, offering speeches to civic clubs, universities, professional associations, veterans' groups, and ceremonial audiences. Themes range from advocacy for naval preparedness and deliberate foreign policy to reflections on civic duty, public service, and educational advancement, alongside local dedications and commemorative remarks. The pieces blend practical policy argument and administrative detail with rhetorical appeals to national character, urging measured conduct by officials and private citizens while connecting specific institutional concerns to broader questions of governance and responsibility.

REMARKS IN PRESENTING THE PATTERSON MEMORIAL CUP TO MR. JOHN CHARLES McNEILL, IN THE SENATE CHAMBER, RALEIGH, N. C., OCTOBER 19, 1905

Mr. McNeill:

I feel, and I am sure all good Americans must feel, that it is far from enough for us to develop merely a great material prosperity. I appreciate, and all of us must, that it is indispensable to have the material prosperity as a foundation, but if we think the foundation is the entire building, we never shall rank as among the nations of the world; and therefore, it is with peculiar pleasure that I find myself playing a small part in a movement, such as this, by which one of the thirteen original States, one of our great States, marks its sense of proper proportion in estimating the achievements of life, the achievements of which the Commonwealth has a right to be proud. It is a good thing to have the sense of historic continuity with the past, which we largely get through the efforts of just such historic societies as this, through which this cup is awarded to you. It is an even better thing to try to do what we can to show our pleasure in and approval of productive literary work in the present. Mr. McNeill, I congratulate you and North Carolina.