BOTH GROUPS TOGETHER: To both these men, George Washington and Abraham
Lincoln, we, the children of the nation, owe a debt of gratitude which
we can only repay by a lifetime of work, for God, humanity, and our
country. Both have left behind them words of wisdom, which, if heeded,
will make us wiser and better boys and girls, and so wiser and better
men and women.
TWO BOYS FROM THE WASHINGTON GROUP: Washington said, "Without virtue
and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant
accomplishments can never gain the respect or conciliate the esteem of
the most valuable part of mankind."
TWO BOYS FROM THE LINCOLN GROUP: Lincoln said, "I have one vote, and I
shall always cast that against wrong as long as I live."
TWO BOYS FROM WASHINGTON GROUP: "If to please the people we offer what
we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work?"
TWO BOYS FROM LINCOLN GROUP: Lincoln said, "In every event of life, it
is right makes might."
ALL: O, wise and great!
Their like, perchance, we ne'er shall see again,
But let us write their golden words upon the hearts of men.