Woodrow Wilson actually said...

I do not pity them. I envy them, rather, because theirs is the great work for liberty accomplished, and we are in the midst of a work unfini...

For, my friends, the real fruition of life is to do the thing we have said we wished to do.

When you reflect upon it, these men who died to preserve the Union died to preserve the instrument which we are now using to serve the world...

In this thing America attains her full dignity and the full fruition of her great purpose.