Acres of Diamonds: The Speech Part 10
Suppose I were to go through this audience to-night and ask you in this great manufacturing city if there are not opportunities to get rich in manufacturing. “Oh yes,” some young man says, “there are opportunities here still if you build with some trust and if you have two [...]

Acres of Diamonds: The Speech Part 11
I spoke thus to an audience in New Britain, Connecticut, and a lady four seats back went home and tried to take off her collar, and the collar-button stuck in the buttonhole. She threw it out and said, “I am going to get up something better than that to [...]

Acres of Diamonds: The Speech Part 12
He was in the Civil War with me, and often in my tent, and I often heard him say that he worked fourteen years to get up that sewing-machine. But his wife made up her mind one day that they would starve to death if there wasn’t something or [...]

Acres of Diamonds: The Speech Part 13
One of my soldiers in the Civil War had been sentenced to death, and I went up to the White House in Washington–sent there for the first time in my life to see the President. I went into the waiting-room and sat down with a lot of others on [...]

Acres of Diamonds: The Speech Part 14
He then took hold of another roll of paper, and looked up at me and said, “Good morning.” I took the hint then and got up and went out. After I had gotten out I could not realize I had seen the President of the United States at all. [...]