o An Address

was crushed for ever. Ever is hardly too big
a word. The situation now is that you have
gone in determined to win; and it lies with
you to be faithful to the end, and to see perhaps
more clearly than you yet do, that you must
sacrifice all else, all present considerations, to
the one purpose of a victory that shall deliver
the earth from terrorism, tyranny, and slavery.
Now you who are met here to-day not only
know all this, but you have also come to be convinced
 that an uneducated democracy can never
be stable. Education is necessary for strength
and stability, and some of you at least have
a wholesome appetite for the requisite food.
And since you cannot get your education without
 leisure, and cannot have leisure without some
easement of the conditions of labour, and this
reform involves legislation, you claim such legislation.
 If our democracy is to be stable, such
legislation is imperative. Here I am with you
all along: and it is of this education that I shall
speak—not of politics nor of war.

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