Our freedom and our land-these are our most priceless heritage. For a brief moment in time we are their trustees. It is our solemn duty to preserve and strengthen them for the generations to come. It is equally our duty to preserve and strengthen them for the great purpose of keeping a strong, free America in a troubled world. I understand the discussions this evening were to be devoted to some of the problems of world peace.
Nothing is so important in that cause as a strong United States of America.
In these days, millions of men and women all over the world are praying that the strength of America will not fail. Today's despots are under no illusions about the value which free people place on freedom. They know that given a free choice no people anywhere will willingly submit to the icy tyranny of the total state. The enemies of human freedom in this world can in the end only achieve their purpose by brute force. All history shows that they will not be held in check by weakness.