Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession - to defend it against every thrust from within or without.

We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.

The eyes of the world are upon you.

We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.

It will begin with its President taking a simple, firm resolution. The resolution will be: To forego the diversions of politics and to concentrate on the job of ending the Korean war-until that job is honorably done. That job requires a personal trip to Korea. I shall make that trip. Only in that way could I learn how best to serve the American people in the cause of peace. I shall go to Korea.

In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of human values.

United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight, we will, with God's help, go forward to our greatest victory.