04/01/1917
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"Do not get the professional point of view."
"I want you to take these great engines of force out onto the seas like adventurers enlisted for the elevation of the spirit of the human race."
"I am not so much happy as proud to participate in this capacity on such an occasion: proud that I should represent such a people."
"Am I mistaken, ladies and gentlemen, in supposing that nothing of this sort could have occurred in anything but a democracy?"