They are the ultimate stake. They may not be immediately attainable throughout the world but humanity does move toward those ideals through democratic processes. Centuries will pass before they can be revived. By winning now, we strengthen their meaning, we increase the stature of mankind and the dignity of human life. Obedience can be obtained and enforced in a dictatorship by the use of threat and extortion or it can be obtained by a failure on the part of government to tell the truth to its citizens.
Loyalty is different.
It springs from the mind that is given the facts, that retains ancient ideals and proceeds without coercion to give support to its own government. That is true in England and in Greece and in China and in the United States today. And in many other countries millions of men and women are praying for the return of a day when they can give that kind of loyalty. Loyalty cannot be bought. Dollars alone will not win this war.