12/27/1918
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"In this thing America attains her full dignity and the full fruition of her great purpose."
"There are times when words seem empty and only action seems great. Such a time has come, and in the providence of God, America will once more have an opportunity to show the world that she was born to..."
"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—a free nation espousing the cause of human liberty."