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Our Flag Stands for Humanity 



These quiet ships, lying in the river, have no suggestion of bluster about them no intimation of aggres- 

 sion. They are commanded by men thoughtful of the duty of citizens as well as the duty of officers men 

 acquainted with the traditions of the great service to which they belong men who know by touch with the 

 people of the United States what sort of purposes- they ought to entertain and what sort of discretion they 

 ought to exercise in order to use those engines of force as engines to promote the interests of humanity. 



For the interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what 

 she has a right to ask for humanity itself. 



\\ e want no nation's property, we wish to question no nation's honor, we wish to stand selfishly in the 

 way of no nation ; we want nothing that we cannot get by our own legitimate enterprise and by the inspiration 

 of our own example, and, standing for these things, it is not pretension on our part to say that we are 

 privileged to stand for what every nation would stand for, and speaking for those things which all humanity 

 must desire. 



\Yhen I think of the flag which those ships carry, the only touch of color about them, the only thing 

 that moves as if it had a settled spirit in it, in their solid structure, it seems to me that I see alternate strips 

 of parchment upon which are written the right of liberty and justice and strips of blood spilled to vindicate 

 those rights and then, in the corner, a prediction of the blue serene into which every nation may swim which 

 stands for these great things. 



And so with every man in arms who serves the nation, he stands and waits to do the things which the 

 nation desires. 



America sometimes seems, perhaps, to forget her program ; or, rather, I will say, that sometimes those 

 who represent her seem to forget her program. But the people never forget it. It is as startling as it is 

 touching to see how whenever you touch a principle you touch the hearts of the people of the United States. 

 They listen to your debates of policy, they determine which party they will prefer to power; they choose and 

 prefer as ordinary men ; but their real affection, their real force, their real, irresistible momentum is for 

 the ideals which men embody. 



Excerpts from President Wilson's address at the rez'ieic of the North Atlantic fleet. 



