I know you live in a very wonderful, fertile part of this great United States, and I heard another remarkable fact about this great city of Oxford. I don't have to stand here and convince you, then, that the Democratic Party stands for what is best for the farmer. I am going to elaborate on that down in Dexter, which I understand is a hotbed of Republicanism. There is only one thing I want to caution you about.
Prosperity sometimes is a bad thing for some people.
It makes them lazy and indifferent to the welfare of their country and their neighbors. I want to urge you people who live in the great farming communities to remember that the Government of the United States is a Government of the people. It is your Government. In fact, you are the Government. Now, in 1946 people didn't do that.