Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.

To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.

The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored.

For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the first requisite.

It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom's price.

But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. And any who act as if freedoms defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America.

Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation.