Proclamation 1580—Thanksgiving, 1920
11/11/1920
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Only a peace between equals can last.
Peace cannot be had without concession and sacrifice.
They cannot in honor withhold the service to which they are now about to be challenged.
No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from th...