The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard. And to attain it, we must be aware of its full meaning - and ready to pay its full price.

In vast stretches of the earth, men awoke today in hunger. They will spend the day in unceasing toil. And as the sun goes down they will still know hunger. They will see suffering in the eyes of their children. Many despair that their labor will ever decently shelter their families or protect them against disease. So long as this is so, peace and freedom will be in danger throughout our world. For wherever free men lose hope of progress, liberty will be weakened and the seeds of conflict will be sown.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Our economy is the result of millions of decisions we all make every day about producing, earning, saving, investing, and spending.

The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.