AT THE HUNGARIAN ROOSEVELT CLUB

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK

MAY 31, 1899

GENTLEMEN: I have heard one of your speakers tonight say that you
supported me because you believed in politics, not for any low and
unworthy motive nor for any material reward which politics may
bring, but because through politics you may accomplish that for which
your great leader Kossuth stood and for which he said America stood,
the regeneration of the world.

I am a good party man. I have striven to be a good party man, and I
have striven to accomplish that by being a good citizen, first and
foremost. If you bring into American life the spirit of the heroes of
Hungary you have done your share. There is nothing this country
needs more than that there shall be put before its men and its 
future men — its boys — and its girls, too — the story of such lives as
that of Kossuth.

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It is not given to one man in a million to be a Dewey, but it is
given to every man to do his part of that work which made a Dewey
possible. The sweaty stoker in the coal hold, the grimy gunner behind
the great rifles, the rapid firers in the tops, the Lieutenants studying,
studying and planning for better machinery and quicker work, the
Captain staying awake at night to plan better ways of managing a ship
— they all have done their part in making possible the heroism of
Dewey. We must not forget the unnamed, unknown hero.