And so we have this Oklahoma City, set upon a foundation so strong that it cannot be shaken. What shall you, the inheritors, do with this city? We hope that you shall make it more and more the city beautiful, more and more the city intellectual, more and more the city spiritual. For these three, beauty, mind, and spirit are the choicest diadems of life."Morituri vos salutamus!" Which, in this case, may be translated, "We, the Pioneers, salute you!
Angelo C. Scott, The Story of Oklahoma City
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