Scientific understanding is our joy. Economic and political understanding is our duty.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.

If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.

To see rich land eaten away by erosion, to stand by as continual cultivation on sloping fields wears away the best soil, is enough to make a good farmer sick at heart.

Good farming, clear thinking, right living.

The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.