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who in the long run deserve best of their country. 

 In the sweat of our brows do we eat bread, and 

 though the sweat is bitter at times, yet it is far more 

 bitter to eat the bread that is unearned, unwon, 

 undeserved. America must nerve herself for labor 

 and peril. The men who have made our national 

 greatness are those who faced danger and over 

 came it, who met difficulties and surmounted them, 

 not those whose lines were cast in such pleasant 

 places that toil and dread were ever far from them. 

 Neither was it an accident that our three leaders 

 were men who, while they did not shrink from war, 

 were nevertheless heartily men of peace. The man 

 who will not fight to avert or undo wrong is but a 

 poor creature; but, after all, he is less dangerous 

 than the man who fights on the side of wrong. 

 Again and again in a nation's history the time may, 

 and indeed sometimes must, come when the na 

 tion's highest duty is war. But peace must be the 

 normal condition, or the nation will come to a bloody 

 doom. Twice in great crises, in 1776 and 1861, and 

 twice in lesser crises, in 1812 and 1898, the nation 

 was called to arms in the name of all that makes the 

 words "honor," "freedom," and "justice" other than 

 empty sounds. On each occasion the net result of 

 the war was greatly for the benefit of mankind. But 

 on each occasion this net result was of benefit only 

 because after the war came peace, came justice and 



