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the Philippines. We have got to stay there, estab 

 lish order, and then give the inhabitants as much 

 self-government as they show they can use to advan 

 tage. We can not run away if we would. We have 

 got to see the work through, because we are not a 

 nation of weaklings. We are strong men, and we 

 intend to do our duty. 



To do our duty that is the sum and substance of 

 the whole matter. We are not trying to win glory. 

 We are not trying to do anything especially brilliant 

 or unusual. We are setting ourselves vigorously at 

 each task as the task arises, and we are trying to face 

 each difficulty as Grant faced innumerable and infi 

 nitely greater difficulties. The sure way to succeed 

 is to set about our work in the spirit that marked the 

 great soldier whose life we this day celebrate: the 

 spirit of devotion to duty, of determination to deal 

 fairly, justly, and fearlessly with all men, and of iron 

 resolution never to abandon any task once begun 

 until it has been brought to a successful and trium 

 phant conclusion. 



