So we have come together on this day to prove symbolically that we are more than a collection of individuals striving one against another, that none of us is too proud, none of us too high, none is too rich, and none too poor, to stand together before the face of the Lord and of the world in this indissoluble, sworn community. And this united nation, we have need of it.

We are determined, as leaders of the nation, to fulfill as a national government the task which has been given to us, swearing fidelity only to God, our consci…

What we are we have become not against, but with, the will of Providence. And so long as we are true and honourable and of good courage in fight, so long as we…

So far as the Evangelical Confessions are concerned we are determined to put an end to existing divisions, which are concerned only with the forms of organizat…

The union of lakes, the union of lands, The union of States none can sever, The union of hearts, the union of hands, And the flag of our Union forever!

We are a nation with no geographic boundaries,

A nation is not a complex of wheels, nor a wild horse race, but a stride upward concerted by real men.