We know something of the cost of that war. We were in it from December seventh, '41, till August of '45. Ever since that time, we have been waging peace. It has had its ups and downs just as the war did.

Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.

With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept the shibboleth of an unbridgeable gap between those who hire and those who are employed. We miserably fail to challenge the lie that what is good for management is necessarily bad for labor; that for one side to profit, the other must be depressed. Such distorted doctrine is false and foreign to the American scene where common ideals and purpose permit us a common approach toward the common good.

Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.

Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction

A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.

I call upon those who love freedom to stand with us now. Together we shall achieve victory.