And the hopes in our hearts fashion the deepest prayers of our whole people. 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. 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. Across all continents, nearly a billion people seek, sometimes almost in desperation, for the skills and knowledge and assistance by which they may satisfy from their own resources, the material wants common to all mankind. No nation, however old or great, escapes this tempest of change and turmoil.