Speech #740085587

That revolt. attended by privation and hardship inconceivable to those of us who have known the softer ways of living. but not unknown to you who were over there during the World War. produced a nation consecrated to freedom which opened its doors as a haven for the persecuted and the downtrodden of the world. We grant no dukedoms to the few We hold like rights * 0 * Each honest man shall have his vote Each child shall have his school. Refugees from other countries. whether they came to this land because they sought freedom from religious persecution or the opportunity of selfadvancement. built and expanded this Nation from an immense. undeveloped region to a nation which today has no peer. A divine Providence must itself have approved the motives which led this country into conflict with other nations. must surely have given its seal of approval that we were in the right. because victory has attended every combat in which we have ever engaged. Thus it was with the War of 1812. thus it was with the skirmishes with Mexico and the frontier battles when our pioneers left civilized places of habitation to open up unknown and untraveled regions of our land.