WE MUST SHOW, NOT MERELY IN GREAT CRISES, BUT IN THE EVERYDAY AFFAIRS OF LIFE, THE QUALITIES OF PRACTICAL INTELLIGENCE, OF COURAGE, OF HARDIHOOD, AND ENDURANCE, AND ABOVE ALL THE POWER OF DEVOTION TO A LOFTY IDEAL, WHICH MADE GREAT THE MEN WHO FOUNDED THIS REPUBLIC IN THE DAYS OF WASHINGTON, WHICH MADE GREAT THE MEN WHO PRESERVED THIS REPUBLIC IN THE DAYS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
