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'The soldier's faith'

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From: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
Date: 20080526
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Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes was an associate justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1895 when he gave this Memorial Day speech to the graduating class at Harvard University.

Behind every scheme to make the world over, lies the question, What kind of world do you want? The ideals of the past for men have been drawn from war, as those for women have been drawn from motherhood.

For all our prophecies, I doubt if we are ready to give up our inheritance. Who is there who would not like to be thought a gentleman? Yet what has that name been ...

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