Tyranny, Like Fog In The Well Known

The Fourth Landing Of The Columbia Is The Historical Equivalent Of The Driving Of The Golden Spike Which Completed The First Transcontinental Railroad. It Marks Our Entrance Into A New Era.

Cannot Swords Be Turned To Plowshares? Can We And All Nations Not Live In Peace? In Our Obsession With Antagonisms Of The Moment, We Often Forget How Much Unites All The Members Of Humanity. Perhaps We Need Some Outside, Universal Threat To Make Us Recognize This Common Bond. I Occasionally Think How Quickly Our Differences Worldwide Would Vanish If We Were Facing An Alien Threat From Outside This World. And Yet, I Ask You, Is Not An Alien Force Already Among Us? What Could Be More Alien To The Universal Aspirations Of Our Peoples Than War And The Threat Of War?

The Doors Of This Library Are Open Now And Are All Welcome. The Judgment Of History Is Left To You, The People. I Have No Fears Of That, For We Have Done Our Best. And So I Say, Come And Learn From It.

In America, Our Origins Matter Less Than Our Destination, And That Is What Democracy Is All About.

It Is The Soviet Union That Runs Against The Tide Of Human History By Denying Human Freedom And Human Dignity To Its Citizens.