07/09/1916
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"Colonel George W. Goethals, now Governor of the Panama Canal, shall be Chairman of this committee."
"No man who thinks first of himself and afterwards of his country can call himself an American."
"You need alliances when you are not strong, and you are weak only when you are not true to yourself."
"We are expected to put the utmost energy of every power that we have into the service of our fellow-men, never sparing ourselves, not condescending to think of what is going to happen to ourselves, bu..."