“We need to keep our faces steadily toward the sun. You can change the simile, to keep our eyes to the stars, but remember that our feet have got to be on the ground.”
About This Quote
Speech before the Union League Club, Chicago, on Washington’s birthday, Feb. 22, 1911.
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