05/17/1917
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"I believe most profoundly in the duty of every American to exalt the national consciousness by purifying his own motives and exhibiting his own devotion."
"The only thing that ever set any man free, the only thing that ever set any nation free, is the truth."
"It is one thing to entertain fine principles and another thing to make them work."
"I wish very much, gentlemen, that candor and truth might always be the standard of politics as well as the standard of business."