The Spirit of Washington

Category

Library Item

Item no

33469

Title

The Spirit of Washington

Description

"We have been given the opportunity to serve mankind as we once served ourselves in the great day of our Declaration of Independence, by taking up arms against a tyranny that threatened to master and debase men everywhere, and joining with other free peoples in demanding for all the nations of the world what we then demanded and obtained for ourselves. In this day of the revelation of our duty not only to defend our own rights as a nation, but to defend also the rights of free men through out the world, there has been vouchsafed us in full and inspiring measure the resolution and spirit of united action. We have been brought to one mind and purpose. A new vigour of common counsel and common action has been revealed in us. We should especially thank God that in such circumstances in the midst of the greatest enterprise the spirits of men have ever entered upon we have, if we but observe a reliable and practical economy, abundance with which to supply needs of those associated with us as well as our own. New light shines about us. The great duties of a new day awaken a new and greater national spirit in us. We shall never again be divided or wonder what stuff we are made of. And while we render thanks for these things, let us pray Almighty God that in all humbleness of spirit we may look always to Him for guidance; that we may be kept constant in the spirit and purpose of service; that by His grace our minds may be directed and our hands strengthened; and that in His good time liberty and security and peace and the comradeship of a common justice may be vouchsafed all the nations of the earth. - Woodrow Wilson"

Artist / maker

Raemaekers, Louis

Date

1919

Size

33.3 x 25.3 cm

Type

Chromolithograph

Location

Art and Design Library

Copyright

Louis Raemaekaers' drawings are reproduced by kind permission of the Louis Raemaekers Foundation.