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adjust. We have followed the spirit of Washington's address 

 for a hundred years, until the movement of history has brought 

 us to the parting of the ways. Federalism or Imperialism 

 which shall it be? 



But whatever the outcome of the present war, whatever the 

 fateful twentieth century may bring, the primal duty of Ameri- 

 cans is never to forget that men are more than nations; that 

 wisdom is more than glory, and virtue more than dominion 

 of the sea. The kingdom of God is within us. The nation 

 exists for its men, never do men exist for the nation. "The 

 only government that I recognize," said Thoreau, "and it 

 matters not how few are at the head of it or how small its army, 

 is the power that establishes justice in the land, never that which 

 establishes injustice." And the will of free men to be just one 

 toward another is our best guarantee that "government of 

 the people, for the people, and by the people, shall not perish 

 from the earth." 



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