07/09/1916
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"Nature pays no tribute to aristocracy, subscribes to no creed of caste, renders fealty to no monarch or master of any name or kind."
"No more significant memorial could have been presented to the nation than this."
"How eloquent this little house within this shrine is of the vigor of democracy!"
"I shall seek, as I have always sought, to purge my heart and purpose of every personal and of every misleading party motive."