To each of us is entrusted the heavy responsibility of guiding the affairs of a democratic nation founded on Christian ideals.

Voters are more than Catholics, Protestants or Jews. They make up their minds for many diverse reasons, good and bad. To submit the candidates to a religious test is unfair enough - to apply it to the voters is divisive, degrading and wholly unwarranted.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Lets talk to one another instead of about one another.

For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for mans allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.

Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a democratic legislative body, accurately represented the nation.

A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve.