09/10/1919
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"No scruple of taste must in grim times like these be allowed to stand in the way of speaking the plain truth."
"Unity of command is as necessary now in civil action as it is upon the field of battle."
"I need not tell you, my fellow countrymen, that I am asking your support not for my own sake or for the sake of a political party, but for the sake of the nation itself, in order that its inward unity..."
"I submit my difficulties and my hopes to you."