04/19/1914
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"The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled, and we shall walk with the light all about us if we be but true to ourselves."
"We are to beware of all men who would turn the tasks and the necessities of the nation to their own private profit or use them for the building up of private power."
"It has been impossible to avoid them."
"I cannot imagine any man with American principles at his heart hesitating to defend these things."