I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free

Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, in tax-sold farms, and in hordes of hungry people, tramping the streets and seeking jobs in vain. Our workers may never see a tax bill, but they pay. They pay in deductions from wages, in increased cost of what they buy, or - as now - in broad unemployment throughout the land.

On both sides of the line, we are so accustomed to an undefended boundary three thousand miles long that we are inclined perhaps to minimize its vast importance, not only to our own continuing relations but also to the example which it sets to the other nations of the world.

All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.