Address at the Des Moines Coliseum in Des Moines, Iowa
01/31/1916
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We have got to be either ostriches or eagles.
The great nations of the world have been asleep, but God knows the other nations have not been asleep.
The old order is gone, and nobody can build it up again.
We are the predestined mediators of mankind.