The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.

And only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this nation, nourished it as an infant, and carried it through its severest tests upon the attainment of its maturity.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.

Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons - new and uncertain nations - new pressures of population and deprivation.

A nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future.

Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.