"We meet here to pay glad homage to the memory of our illustrious dead; but let us keep ever clear before our minds the fact that mere lip-loyalty is no loyalty at all, and that the only homage that counts is the homage of deeds, not of words. It is but an idle waste of time to celebrate the memory of the dead unless we, the living, in our lives strive to show ourselves not unworthy of them.
     "If we stand idly by, if we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where (humanity) must win at hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then the bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world.
"Justice among the nations of mankind, and the uplifting of humanity, can be brought about only by those strong and daring (people) who with wisdom love peace, but who love righteousness more than peace."