Woodrow Wilson - War Message - Deadwood, SD
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WWI Memorial on the courthouse lawn...includes this quote.
Waymark Code: WM102MW
Location: South Dakota, United States
Date Posted: 02/13/2019
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County of memorial: Lawrence County
Location of memorial: 90 Sherman St., Deadwood
Quote by: Woodrow Wilson
Memorial erected by: Lawrence County South Dakota
Quote: "The right is more precious than peace, we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts, to such a task we dedicate our lives."
-- Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson's LONG speech asking them to declare WAR was concluded with this last paragraph:
"It is a distressing and oppressive duty, gentlemen of the Congress, which I have performed in thus addressing you. There are, it may be, many months of fiery trial and sacrifice ahead of us. It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts -- for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free. To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other."