May we grow in strength without pride in self. May we, in our dealings with all peoples of the earth, ever speak truth and serve justice. We live in a land of plenty, but rarely has this earth known such peril as today. In our Nation work and wealth abound. Our population grows.
Commerce crowds our rivers and rails, our skies, harbors, and highways.
Our soil is fertile, our agriculture productive. Now this is our home-yet this is not the whole of our world. For our world is where our full destiny lies-with men, of all people, and all nations, who are or would be free. In too much of the earth there is want, discord, danger. New forces and new nations stir and strive across the earth, with power to bring, by their fate, great good or great evil to the free world's future.