No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole. While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.

I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold!

The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin, our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces? Are we going to maintain our present course toward State Socialism with Communism just beyond or reverse the present trend and regain our hold upon our heritage of liberty and freedom?

There is no security. Only opportunity.

There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.