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ly a century. With the close of the American Civil War the D ation of Independence began to have a new meaning for us alth k 0u it is far from being realized fully yet. ' 8" This war and our relation to it will put a new and larger mea ' into this great Declaration of which every American should be D "'"J? and which every American should be determined to help reali? the fullest possible extent. We shall come to understand more fully than we do now that the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are not mere negative rights but positive rights calling not positive policies on the part of societv that they may be fully realized. shall be hastened shall suffer wo ; k ; when toevery one wil.ing to do hi s ^ f c ™ X £ £ a decent human life shall be secured: when economic n / ; ^ . liberty chiefly contemplated in the Declaration Toward all this a decisive and early victory her allies will be greatly conducive war ^ t h f trTche! * * ? £ £ T ^ t * * " * » ° ' < * the 8 on ,and on the sea, tnZuToZ H T ' " ^P^ ' ™* you may be doW 111 ^T^*"™* 7™ are and whatever else

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