“is going out conquering and to conquer until, it may be, in the Providence of God, a new light is lifted up in America which shall throw the rays of liberty and justice far abroad upon every sea, and even upon the lands which now wallow in darkness and refuse to see the light.”28 The next year, at the same ceremony, Wilson said that war (which Wilson had entered two months earlier) offered a chance “to vindicate the things which we have professed” and “show the world” that America “was born to serve mankind.”
