03/30/1917
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"The world never stood in such case before."
"Our financial program must no more be left in doubt or suffered to lag than our ordnance program or our ship program or our munitions program, or our program for making millions of men ready."
"We need not be afraid to tax them, if we lay taxes justly."
"I cannot assure the country of a successful Administration of the Treasury in 1918 if the question of further taxation is to be left undecided until 1919."