Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.

From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea - written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo - "There is no substitute for victory!"

There is no security. Only opportunity.

We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.