06/28/1918
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"It is our duty and our privilege to be like the country we represent and, speaking no word of malice, no word of criticism even, stand shoulder to shoulder to lift the burdens of mankind in the future..."
"Am I mistaken, ladies and gentlemen, in supposing that nothing of this sort could have occurred in anything but a democracy?"
"I am not so much happy as proud to participate in this capacity on such an occasion: proud that I should represent such a people."
"We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves selves drank."