And the hopes in our hearts fashion the deepest prayers of our whole people. And so shall America, in the sight of all men of good will, prove true to the honorable purposes that bind and rule us as a people in all this time of trial through which we pass. 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. 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. And for them, and so for us, this is no time of ease or of rest. In too much of the earth there is want, discord, danger.