Address at Hodgenville, Kentucky: Lincoln's Beginnings
09/03/1916
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The United States will play a new part, and that it will be a part of unprecedented opportunity and of greatly increased responsibility.
We have got to finance the world in some important degree.
The suspicion is beginning to dawn in many quarters that the average man knows the business necessities of the country just as well as the e...
We must play a great part in the world whether we choose it or not.