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Of course, I know that the whole infernal thing is cooked up to beat you, if possible.

But that is the greater reason why you must win.

I am willing to be sacrificed, if that will help--for forgetting the impending row or for any reason you will.
I suppose we've got to go through such a struggle to pull our Government and our people up to an understanding of our own place in the world--a place so high and big and so powerful that all the future belongs to us.

From an economic point of view, we _are_ the world; and from a political point of view also.

How any man who sees this can have any feeling but pity for the Old World, passes understanding.