Nothing Would Please Me Better Than If

In Short, Is American Life Of The Future To Be Characterized By Freedom Or By Servitude, Strength Or Weakness? The Answer Must Be Clear And Unequivocal If We Are To Avoid The Pitfalls Toward Which We Are Now Heading With Such Certainty. In Many Respects It Is Not To Be Found In Any Dogma Of Political Philosophy But In Those Immutable Precepts Which Underlie The Ten Commandments.

Today The Guns Are Silent. A Great Tragedy Has Ended. A Great Victory Has Been Won. The Skies No Longer Rain With Death - The Seas Bear Only Commerce - Men Everywhere Walk Upright In The Sunlight. The Entire World Lies Quietly At Peace. The Holy Mission Has Been Completed. And In Reporting This To You, The People, I Speak For The Thousands Of Silent Lips, Forever Stilled Among The Jungles And The Beaches And In The Deep Waters Of The Pacific Which Marked The Way.

No Man Is Entitled To The Blessings Of Freedom Unless He Be Vigilant In Its Preservation.

It Must Be Of The Spirit If We Are To Save The Flesh.

I Promise To Keep On Living As Though I Expected To Live Forever. Nobody Grows Old By Merely Living A Number Of Years. People Grow Old Only Be Deserting Their Ideals. Years May Wrinkle The Skin, But To Give Up Interest Wrinkles The Soul.