If you don't have your own goals, you'll be doomed to work toward someone else's.

In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice.

Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.

Today, America has become one of the most powerful forces for good on earth. We must keep it so.

But all of us-at home, at war, wherever we may be-are within the reach of God's love and power. We all can pray. We all should pray. We should ask the fulfillment of God's will.

If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.

When you can't do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damned secret, then we're on our way to something the Founding Fathers didn't have in mind. Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.